Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 23:44:37 -0500 (EST) From: Wankle Rotary Engine <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ypserv - Is there a port? Message-ID: <199503020444.XAA00757@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <9503012004.AA05575@sol.sol.med.ge.com> from "Derek Laufenberg x7-4534" at Mar 1, 95 02:04:57 pm
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They say this Derek Laufenberg x7-4534 person was kidding when he wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm running the 2.0 release and have had good success with NFS, > but I would like to get NIS running. I see in the man pages that > the server side needs to be written. The man page date was mid-93 > so I hoping some work may have been done. > > If not, I'd take a crack at it IF some kind soul would be willing > to mentor me a bit. I've very new to unix .err... BSD programming. > > Derek Laufenberg > laufen@sol.ge.med.com FreeBSD-current now has NIS server support. It uses a port of a GNU copylefted server originally written for Linux. It also now has ypxfr, yppush, yppasswd and yppasswdd. I also made some changes to the getpwent functions to support exporting the master.passwd database as an NIS map in a semi-secure fashion as well as some bug fixes. (ypbind has been fixed up a bit too.) The next items on my TODO list (after I finish rarpd, which I might manage to do tonight) are: - Modify the getnetgrent functions to use NIS for netgroups lookups. - Add support for +@netgroup substitutions in getpwent in libc. - Add libc support for ether_ntohost(), ether_hostton() and their relatives with NIS functionality. I wrote some support functions for rarpd to implement ether_ntohost() with NIS support, but the ethers lookup functions really belong in libc. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~~~ FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #0: Tue Feb 7 01:49:07 EST 1995 ~~~~~~~~~
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