In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >, 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. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: NIS/YP problems on FBSD 4.2-STABLE
Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:24:17 -0800
