Re: [TUHS] YP / NIS / NIS+ / LDAP

[Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>]

OK, found some slides:

http://mcvoy.com/lm/papers/lamed.pdf

If your browser can't read the pdf (firefox failed for me), wget it or
whatever and try a command line pdf viewer (mupdf worked for me).

Happy to fill in the details if you have questions.

On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 07:49:40PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I'm really tired (been crabbing all day and got 2 crabs, 7 pots, 5 hour soak,
> got 2, sucked).
> 
> And I know very little about LDAP.
> 
> But I did do a sort of vnode/file system switch answer to this problem,
> we called it lamed, I'll try and find you some docs in the morning.
> 
> We built a server that could take requests in any form and spit back
> the answer.  My goal was to have a 200mhz MIPS server serve up this info
> for the entire state of California, perform well, and work across reboots.
> We pretty much did it.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 01:51:08PM -0700, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience with YP / NIS / NIS+ / LDAP as a central
> > directory on Unix?
> > 
> > I'm contemplating playing with them for historical reasons.
> > 
> > As such, I'm wondering what the current evolution is for a pure Unix
> > environment.  Read:  No Active Directory.  Is there a current central
> > directory service for Unix (or Linux)?  If so, what is it?
> > 
> > I'm guessing it's LDAP combined with Kerberos, but I'm not sure.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Grant. . . .
> > unix || die
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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> Larry McVoy            	     lm at mcvoy.com             http://www.mcvoy.com/lm 

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