Re: Alternatives to NIS?

To: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>
Cc: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Alternatives to NIS?
From: George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 22:38:37 -0800 (PST)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.971230223727.12472N-100000@calvin.shorelink.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 349EFD13.94B@bdsinc.com>

> The latest version of NIS uses encryption and authentication. I don't
> know if software is available for debian (or anyone other than Sun).
> Sun calls it NIS Plus.

And you are best staying away from it unless you want to spend long hours
getting it to work correctly ... and it is fragile ;)


George Bonser 
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