[BBLISA] Pros and cons of NIS

[Sean Lutner]

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You want a tool to sync AD to an LDAP store? Sun offers a tool called  
Identity Sync for Windows that will sync AD to Sun's Directory  
server. I've done a few implementations of that.  I'm not quite sure  
if that's what you're asking, or if I've answered properly. If not,  
let  me know.

Sean

On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:12 PM, Bill Smith wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:59:43 -0400, Sean Lutner wrote:
>
>> If you want a better central naming service/authentication system,
>> I'd recommend deploying an LDAP directory service. There are easy to
>> use tools out there to accomplish NIS to LDAP migrations and LDAP can
>> be made very secure through the use of SSL and client configuration
>> is very easy.
>>
>> I do a lot of directory service work for various companies and it's
>> been my experience that LDAP is the way to go.
>
> Can you recommend any tool(s) in particular that might make the  
> task of
> shifting from NIS to LDAP authorization synchronizing from Active
> Directory a little easier?
>
>
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