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Re: LDAP and cfengine - Supported??
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Re: LDAP and cfengine - Supported?? |
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Thu, 8 May 2003 22:31:52 +0200 (MEST) |
As long as you're only using for host lookup, it should
work as long as that is configured in nsswitch.conf etc.
But things like netgroups and such will not work
M
On 8 May, Akop Pogosian wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:35:07AM -0500, Morgan Ives wrote:
>> Currently we are using cfengine and NIS. We are thinking of
>> moving to LDAP. Does anyone know if cfengine can use
>> LDAP as its naming service?
>> Morgan
>
> I'd be surprised if it doesn't. Any well written UNIX application that
> makes use of the well known abstract C library functions for querying
> system data bases (e.g. gethostbyname or getpwuid) instead of
> contacting the data sources directly should work regardless of the
> directory service you're using. You should be fine as long as your
> LDAP server/client combo supports all NIS maps that you need to use.
> (I know some LDAP server/client combinations didn't support certain
> more exoteric NIS map types in the past)
>
>
> -akop
>
>
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