On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 11:20:30AM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 6 January 2015 at 05:08, Dirk Hoffmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > I installed SL7 yesterday from the standard DVD in "Computing node"
> > flavour. "yum update" ran correctly, then I needed YP/NIS.
>

I can confirm that NIS does work (can be made to work) in SL7, but out of the box, it will not work.

I do not have all the steps written down yet, but at the least, you have to turn off the firewall.

>
> Wow.. I didn't know ypbind was still in use :)?
>

There is no replacement to NIS for small clusters.

Vendors send us in the direction of LDAP, which is supposed to be "light weight".

Well, if LDAP is light-weight, I hate to see what they consider as normal-weight.

With NIS, management is "vi /etc/auto.home; make -C /var/yp".

Wake me up when LDAP gets anywhere near that easy to use.

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