On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:14:59PM +0100, HAMILTON,DAVID (HP-Ireland,ex2) mentioned:
> Has anyone used an LDAP server to serve UNIX authentication requests?
> Any opinions, fears, perks?
> I am about to replace a NIS+ config with Netscape Directory Server and HP's
> LDAP/UX.
Used openLDAP/PAM about a year ago. Worked fine, though it was a little
on the slow side - it didn't seem to cache anything & had to do a request
for each bit of information. ls -l /home on a large-user machine took a
while :)
Kate
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