. . . As many high educationnal sites we have many mixed environnement computers , HP-UX, Linux, windows9x/2000/NT, FreeBSD, Solaris ... we need to centralize authetication to LDAP to have an unique and centralized auth process for all computers. . . . Frank Bonnet
Other posters have made some interesting suggestions. One thing I've had in the back of my mind, though we haven't tried it here yet, is that Solaris-8 has some NIS-to-LDAP transition support available in it. My understanding is that you can point NIS clients at an appropriately configured Solaris-8 NIS server, which in turn answers NIS requests based on data hosted in an LDAP service.
So, even old systems like SunOS-4 and Solaris-2.6, etc., can be served from LDAP without realizing it. It seems reasonable to assume that one could do the same thing for a NetApp's NIS client as well.
There are references to this LDAP transition stuff in some Sun Blueprints Online articles (http://www.sun.com/blueprints/).
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