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Originally Posted by
frank_rizzo
Do companies really still use NIS? Just curious. It'd been a long time since I have used it and I don't see a legitimate use for it these days. LDAP is a much better replacement for many reasons and is also very scalable.
Surprisingly, yes they do. LDAP is not a replacement for NIS, it is a network protocol for accessing an X.500-based directory. NIS data can be stored in an LDAP-compliant directory using the RFC2307 schema, which then allows for NIS maps such as passwd, group, netgroup, protocols, services etc. to be served using LDAP instead, and this is what many people are moving towards. However, there are limitations with the RFC2307 schema that I am addressing, such as when it introduces case insensitivity where case sensitivity previously existed and general lack of flexibility when working with data in large complex organisations. As part of addressing these things, I would like to revisit netgroups and improve them, hence my original posting. I'll take it that the majority of people don't use the domain portion of the netgroup triple, go ahead and redefine it in my draft, and seek further comment once published.