Re: perl or libc6 bug?: getpwnam('root') in NIS environment

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 23:36 +0200 1999-04-14, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> According to Ben Gertzfield:
> > really. NIS+ is theoretically better
>
> Yes, like ssh, kerberos, etc, and any other of those new-style protocols
>
> Unfortunately Debian is mostly US-based and any safe protocols are
> treated like ammuniton. You can't export that even though the rest of the
> world alrady has it (or even invented it).

Strangely, no one seems bothered that we aren't actually allowed to 
export glibc-crypt (at least not the sources). I figure it's safe 
since the commercial dists do it too.

glibc 2.1 has the necessary pieces for NIS+, though someone needs to 
package `nis-utils' 
(ftp://ftp.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS+/nis-utils-1.0.tar.gz 
). Unfortunately the server implementation is not yet stable.
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