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# 1  
Old 01-05-2018
Solaris - Moving off NIS to something better

Mostly Solaris 11 with some 10 and even fewer 8 and 9.

At the moment, NIS is used.

Looking for a better way and to get rid of NIS.
# 2  
Old 01-05-2018
LDAP?
# 3  
Old 01-06-2018
LDAP indeed...

With RFC2307bis schema draft 02 (which is what I think Solaris uses) combined with TLS or Kerberos.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-06-2018 at 04:07 AM..
# 4  
Old 01-08-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
LDAP?
As is in "what is LDAP?" or "Why not try LDAP?"

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
LDAP indeed...

With RFC2307bis schema draft 02 (which is what I think Solaris uses) combined with TLS or Kerberos.
Current NIS server is Solaris 8. Upgrade this first or leave alone before moving to LDAP?

Looking for least disruptive method....
# 5  
Old 01-08-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by psychocandy
As is in "what is LDAP?" or "Why not try LDAP?"
As : There is no other choice than LDAP if you want to get rid of NIS but depending on your expectations, it might not match what you mean with "a better way"

You do not tell why you want to drop NIS. It's a 33 year's old service so neat it even survived its successor (NIS+).

If you look for a smooth transition, it can be achieved by setting up the nis2ldap service. It requires an ODSEE backend.
# 6  
Old 01-08-2018
OK maybe its not better lol.

Mainly for security issues and because its unsupported. After all, we're also running on a pair of solaris 8 servers.
# 7  
Old 01-08-2018
Hi,

My take on this would be that if you actually have a functional need to move away from NIS for some reason (i.e. you're adding a new server, service or application that doesn't support it, but which could integrate with, say, OpenLDAP just fine), then sure, get rid of NIS. But if NIS is working for you, then there's no real need to replace it with something else.

If your NIS server is running Solaris 8 and is now unsupported and unpatchable, but the rest of your environment is running supported versions of Solaris and is already integrated with the NIS domain, then the real problem is Solaris 8 rather than NIS.

In that scenario it would definitely be easier and less work to migrate the NIS server service onto a currently-supported Solaris box and just leave the rest of the NIS environment intact, I'd imagine.
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