Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:51:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, FreeBSD-STABLE <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NIS/YP problems on FBSD 4.2-STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102271944270.1041-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20010227140606.B4667@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: >On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:50:48PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >> Well, I'm sorry bothering you again with these problems, >> but they become serious to me, sorry. >> >> My intention was to build up a NIS/YP domain. But it seems >> to be very complex. Not to be captious, but it has been my experience that open source and/or free NIS/YP implementations are not exactly up to scrub. Most of them work, to a certain extent, and that seems to be enough. This holds true for all of the BSDs and linux. They tend to work well enough for basic map sharing, and sometimes only to certain other OSes. When you look for things like remote modification of account information, things can start to break down. The code in FreeBSD probably works better than the rest of them, but even it falls down on some of the higher functionality of NIS. I genuinely wish I, or somebody better qualified had the time to write a flexible, extensible, BSD licensed YP implementation. -- Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net> "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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