NIS+

[adiMasher]

Good day Unix Geeks,

I feel I may have a solution to my ultimate problem. It appears that Solaris 8 has LDAP support with the OS. and for 2.6 and 7 I feel my best bet is to use NIS+ to get LDAP support for authenticating logins with Win2K's Active Directory. (If you feel there is a much better way/ or more efficient let me know)

So my problem is this. I've been up and down Sunfreeware's site, sun.com/download and through a couple of major search engines and I have yet to find a binary executable or package or anything that I can use to install NIS+... If anyone knows of it's where abouts, like a

http://www site

or a cd then please, please tell me where to locate it.

Much Thanks,
Martin

 

[marrow]

Something tells that NIS+ is already there. It is on our Solaris systems even though we don't actually use.

man pages are also available and if you : -

cd /usr/lib/nis

and list the contents and you should see the following: -

nisaddent nisclient nisopaccess nispopulate nissetup nisstat
nisauthconf nisctl nisping nisserver nisshowcache nisupdkeys

I was able to run some initial commands. However a word of warning nisplus can be a little tricky to set up.

cd /usr/lib/nis
./nisserver -r -d york.xx.co.uk

As an example, on NIS+ Building a Root Master Server: -

nisserver -r -d york.xx.co.uk
nispopulate -F -p /etc -d shf.nor.xx.com.
nislog | wc -l
nisping -C york.xx.co.uk.
nisls org_dir (list tables)
niscat hosts.org_dir (list entries in host table)
reboot


Have a look and see.