Re: nis install question
In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.961229230426.8103A-100000@templin-wks.bucknell.edu>,
Pete Templin <templin@bucknell.edu> wrote:
>
>Hi there. Pete the perenial question-asker here.
>
>I'd like to look at the stuff for the nis package. Will anything break if
>I do nothing more than install the nis debian package (i.e. is it a bad
>thing to install on a machine which I kinda depend on?)? I hope to
>migrate to nis sometime this summer, and I'd like to look at it first.
>
>Thanks for the input!
It's probably harmless to install NIS on a machine in a network
that's doesn't have a NIS server. However don't put the +:: at the end
of your password and/or group files or you will have errors about not
being able to bind to the NIS server all over the place. Including
cron mailing you every _5_ minutes about it (though that might be fixed
in a recent libc5 package).
Mike.
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