Re: NIS+ support in glibc/libc6

[Ben Gertzfield <che@imsa.edu>]

>>>>> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@news.cistron.nl> writes:

    Miquel> But not totally yet. But yes, the client side seems to be
    Miquel> done.

Which is pretty darned important, if you ask me. :)

    Miquel> The next release of the nis package will be broken into
    Miquel> seperate packages- ypserv, ypbind and nis-tools. These
    Miquel> will be the packages from www-vt.uni-paderborn.de. However
    Miquel> I don't know anything about NIS+, so maybe we should keep
    Miquel> NIS and NIS+ seperate?

NIS+ should be completely separate from NIS -- the two are totally
different things. 

    Miquel> Anyway, if you're going to do anything, please contact me
    Miquel> so that we can coordinate this.

I'd like to test it out -- is Helmut planning to release a lib6 with
the DES encryption enabled?

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