[BBLISA] Help with nis-to-LDAP

[Rudie, Tony]

I know absolutely nothing about LDAP, despite having read a good bit of the "LDAP System Administration" O'Reilly book.  I'm trying to assemble just a rudimentary, lab, test, crash-and-burn LDAP server to experiment with NIS replacement ideas.  But I can't even figure out what the root node should be!  Does it HAVE to match my DNS domain?  Or can it be something totally else?  Like, say, "dn: dc=LAB-NIS"  ??  The reason I ask is that I don't want to have anything to do with the corporate AD server.

Many thanks,

Tony Rudié
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