On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:15, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
We found that turning on nscd with openldap w/db4 had the speeds
equivalent to NIS. However our ldap tables may just be lucky enough to
be fast.
And to be fair - I found that it helps ldap too. but then you suffer
nscd's problems of over-caching passwords with other uid information.
unless you're using kerberos - and then if you are I'm not sure how much
ldap saves you over nis.
-sv