Transitioning From NIS to LDAP

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Chapter 8

This chapter describes how to enable support of NIS clients that use naming information stored in the LDAP directory. By following the procedures in this chapter, you can transition from using an NIS naming service to using the LDAP naming service.

For information about the benefits of transitioning to LDAP, see Overview of the LDAP Naming Service.

Note - The recommended and more cost effective procedure is to avoid using NIS-to-LDAP. First, set up your LDAP infrastructure; then, reconfigure your systems to directly use the LDAP infrastructure.

See the announcement about "Network Information Name Service (NIS)" in End of Features (EOF) Planned for Future Releases of Oracle Solaris (https://www.oracle.com/solaris/technologies/end-of-feature-notices-solaris11.html#futurereleases).

This chapter covers the following topics:

About the NIS-to-LDAP Service
Transitioning From NIS to LDAP Task Map
Prerequisites for the NIS-to-LDAP Transition
Setting Up the NIS-to-LDAP Service
NIS-to-LDAP Best Practices With Oracle Unified Directory
NIS-to-LDAP Restrictions
NIS-to-LDAP Troubleshooting
Reverting to NIS