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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:37:35 -0800
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
Cc:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, "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:  <200102280638.f1S6cMq06243@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:02:29 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10102271700560.28118-100000@athena.uniserve.ca> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10102271700560.28118-100000@athena.uniserve.ca
>, Tom
writes:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>   Well, that doesn't help reduce the complexity though, which is the
> original poster's issue.  NIS isn't necessarily an easy thing.
> 
>   I run a NIS master with 30,000 users in it.  No problems.  It doesn't
> fail either.  I've been doing this since FreeBSD 2.2

Same here.  I've been using NIS on my network at home since 2.0.5.  
Just installed -STABLE CVSupped as of Feb 27 04:15.  Works like a charm.


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Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
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