Sharing

Overview of NIS+ to LDAP Migration

Comparing LDAP and NIS+ Information Sharing

	Comparing LDAP and NIS+ Information
	Sharing
	Traditionally, HP-UX account and conﬁguration information is stored in
	text ﬁles like /etc/passwd and /etc/group. NIS+ is used to ease system
	administration by sharing the information across systems on the
	network. With NIS+, account and conﬁguration information resides on
	NIS+ servers. NIS+ client systems retrieve this shared information
	across the network from NIS+ servers, as shown in Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1	A Simpliﬁed NIS+ Environment

NIS+ Master

Server

Map transfers

NIS+ Replica Server

NIS+ Requests

NIS+ Client

Chapter 1

HP UX LDAP-UX Integration Software manual Comparing Ldap and NIS+ Information, Sharing