[clug] Syncronising UID/GIDs when migrating to LDAP

[Duncan Roe]

Pardon my ignorance, but isn't that exactly what NIS is supposed to do?

Not that I've used it myself,

Cheers ... Duncan.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:47:55AM +1000, Edward Lang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any knowledge or experience in syncronising UID/GIDs across
> myriad servers when migrating the servers to use LDAP for authentication and
> user data storage?
>
> I've got a bunch of servers that have been put into use over a period of
> time and unfortunately the UIDs and GIDs don't presently match up.  They're
> each presently using local authentication and local user administration.
> I've been asked to assist in moving them to point at a Win2003 AD PDC using
> LDAP as the transport. (Kerberos doesn't do group enumeration!) Centralising
> the administration and authentication would be nice but maintaining file and
> directory ownerships could well be a nightmare.
>
> Regards,
>
> Edward.
>
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