Running LDAP without NIS: Does it work?

Is anyone out there using Netscape Directory Server without NIS
(extensions)?
We are planning on going to an LDAP solution for logons, and etc. Everything
I am reading is saying that Solaris needs to use the NIS extensions for NIS
maps. This make sense for that purpose. Then they are making it sound like
from there go to straight LDAP. I would like to skip that intermediate step
and go straight to ldap.
And if all of that works, how does automount and NFS work with that type of
solution?
Thank you for any help,
K. Murphy

The NIS extensions are a bit confusing to understand. Solaris supports
native LDAP authentication in two ways:
1) Solaris can directly authenticate against an LDAP directory (no NIS
involved).
2) For those clients which support NIS but do not support LDAP
(machines with old versions of Solaris or maybe non-Sun boxes), Solaris
will act as a NIS server (such that the client communicates via NIS and
doesn't use LDAP) but the NIS server really uses LDAP.
The NIS extensions for Solaris are for implimenting method #2. If you
are using method #1 then you should not install the NIS extensions.
Only certain versions of Solaris work with method #1. What version of
Solaris are you running? What version of iPlanet Directory Server were
you planning to use?
Michael Haines and Tom Bialaski of Sun have jointly authored a book on
this topic (I think it's called "Solaris Native LDAP" - it's one of the
Sun "Blueprints" series books) and Michael has written a pretty good
script (which is so verbosely commented that it's also highly
educational to read) which automates the configuration of the directory
and the Solaris clients (configures them to bind to the directory), but
the last version I had supported iDS 4.12 & 4.13 - not iDS 5.x (maybe
he's got a revision by now).
Regards
Tim
K Murphy wrote:
Is anyone out there using Netscape Directory Server without NIS
(extensions)?
We are planning on going to an LDAP solution for logons, and etc. Everything
I am reading is saying that Solaris needs to use the NIS extensions for NIS
maps. This make sense for that purpose. Then they are making it sound like
from there go to straight LDAP. I would like to skip that intermediate step
and go straight to ldap.
And if all of that works, how does automount and NFS work with that type of
solution?
Thank you for any help,
K. Murphy

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