Date: 09 Jan 1998 13:56:48 -0600 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: Seth Perlman <seth@charm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD NIS Message-ID: <87hg7dzain.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Seth Perlman's message of "Fri, 09 Jan 1998 10:47:38 -0800" References: <34B670CA.4C86@charm.net>
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Seth Perlman <seth@charm.net> writes: > Are there any ports of FreeBSD NIS to SunOS 4.1 or Solaris being used > in mission-critical applications? Not sure what you mean... why would anyone port freebsd's NIS to sunos when sunos already has a better version? > How well does a FreeBSD PC running NIS talk to Solaris machines? Which > commands if any are not usable? I connect to an NIS+ server (running in NIS compat. mode) on a solaris 2.5 machine from my freebsd box. I cannot change passwords from the freebsd box (this is a feature of nis+--a machine needs nis+ credentials before it can change values on nis+ server), but otherwise it's worked flawlessly. > Any help appreciated...thanks Hopefully this is of some help--i suspect you want more specifics which I cannot really provide you with. -- Steve Farrell
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