Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 19:49:26 -0500 (EST) From: Yves Lepage <yves@CC.McGill.CA> To: hench@cae.uwm.edu, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS breakage Message-ID: <199701200049.TAA18520@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, I use FreeBSD's implementation of NIS for production. Although broken, it's the cleanest and most stable implementation that I've been using. Which is why we use this one as opposed to using Sun's. I use huge maps (huge, from NIS's point of view) and 38k doesn't seem to be a limit for me. It's true though that I use 2.1.5. Problems that I have seen in FreeBSD's NIS: - ypcat is broken. a 'ypcat passwd' doesn't give me nearly as many entries as there are in the map - yp_mkdb -u gives me slightly better results but some entries are still missing. The only way I have found so far to compare a map and the master.passwd file is to extract usernames from the master.passwd and ypmatch them all against the passwd.byname map. I have to do this because sometimes, some entries will be "forgotten" by the maps building process. This doesn't happen very often, fortunately. Yves Lepage
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199701200049.TAA18520>