Reverting to NIS
A site that has transitioned from NIS to LDAP using the N2L service is expected to gradually
replace all NIS clients with LDAP naming services clients. Support for NIS clients eventually
becomes redundant. However, if required, the N2L service provides two ways to return to traditional
NIS, as explained in the procedures in this section.
Tip -
Traditional NIS ignores the N2L versions of the NIS maps if those maps are present. After
reverting to NIS, if you leave the N2L versions of the maps on the server, the N2L maps do not cause
problems. Therefore, keeping the N2L maps might be useful in case you later decide to re-enable N2L.
Note, however, that the maps do take up disk space.