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Re: LDAP and cfengine - Supported??


From: mark
Subject: Re: LDAP and cfengine - Supported??
Date: 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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