I've been looking at the nis howto and have a couple of questions. First, since I am adding nis after the fact due primarily to NFS file ownership issues what will happen when the nis provided passwd and shadow files are shared? Will I need to change ownerships for all files that had different userids (number) and groups? Second, what is the state of NIS+ on linux. All the *nixes we run are linux. I have four servers that are still 6.0 but and several other machines that run 6.2. I am seriously considering upgrading all to 6.2 since it seems pretty stable. SHould I even mess with NIS +? The howto tells of unsupported NIS + but it also refers to RedHat 5.2. I figure there has got to be some progress. Third, what are the advantages/disadvantages of NIS+ over NIS? How is it more secure? Last, what is everyone else doing? I have considered just using Samba to mount what are now NFS partitions since I don't seem to have near the problems with it that I have with NFS. Does Linux to Linux Samba know about all the unix file perms or will everything be an executable like it is in windows? Any input appreciated. Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
