Chapter TWENTY ONE. An Introduction to LDAP
Chapter Syllabus
Originally, UNIX account and configuration information was stored in a series of text files. As the need to share this information across systems increased, the first widely accepted product named Yellow Pages, and later renamed to Network Information Service (NIS), was developed by Sun Microsystems. NIS provides network-wide management of many UNIX configuration files (e.g., /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/services). An NIS master server generates maps based on the configuration files and transfers copies to slave servers. On NIS
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