> I am currently running Redhat 6.1, Mandrake 7.1, and Caldera 2.4. I > have not decided which distribution I like the best, but I am assuming > LDAP or NIS setup would be about the same with any distribution. <plug type=shameless>If your setting up servers, give debian a go.</plug> Setting up LDAP is like setting up a good database, mainly because LDAP is (well...kinda sorta...) a database. As far as managment utilties go, I use GQ. It kinda limited right now though. The best way right now is just making ldif files (or making shell scripts to spit out ldif files, which really isn't hard.) and throwing the ldif files to OpenLDAP via ldapadd. As for design, I like the domain scheme over the location scheme (dc=ltiflex, dc=com) and then OU's to seperate things out (Ou=People for users, Ou=Roaming for netscape roaming profiles, etc etc etc.) Really, I haven't looked at NIS much, and only played with LDAP a bit, but so far I like LDAP. Here's a breif HOWTO on migrating from flatfiles to LDAP: http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-ldap-redhattips.html It's really not as RedHat specific as it seems to be. If you are migrating to linux, you'd best choose a distro and be consistant with it. I know that debian can be set up to keep it's package database (both what's available and what's installed) in LDAP. Kinda neat when you think about it, you only have to do apt-get update once, then apt-get upgrade each server. Just make suer you backup the LDAP data often! -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX:132) LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (FAX) 763-428-9126 21801 Industrial Blvd | (PCS) 612-306-6055 Rogers, MN 55374 | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org