[ILUG] LDAP for UNIX authentication

[Gary Coady]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:56:20PM +0000, John P . Looney wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:31:48PM +0000, Gary Coady mentioned:
> > Were you using nscd at the time? Just curious, LDAP is one of my 'future
> > projects', but if nscd didn't work as advertised, that would be a PITA...
> 
>  Probably not. If it wasn't installed by default...I thought it was only
> on Solaris etc. Is it part of openldap 2.0 or something ?

Hmm dunno where it comes from - it came to notice for me sometime because
some package on Debian suggested it... I forget which package though ;)
Ah... it appears to come with glibc, not sure at what point it started to
be bundled with that though...
...
... in the README for glibc 2.1, this snippet was included:

* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a
* caching daemon for NSS (nscd).

  Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements.  Under
  Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes

				  user	system	   wall

    using local files		12.19s	 6.88s	 22.91s

    using NIS			13.92s	 8.91s	 26.34s

    using NIS & nscd 10.37s	 7.34s	 25.30s

    using NIS+			27.57s	30.37s  640.46s

    using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s   7.83s   26.51s

    using NIS & old nscd [1]	13.83s	 8.32s	 29.60s

  Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
  It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
  horribly slow.

  [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
  distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.


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