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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!xenlink!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Is a YP/NIS client available? In-Reply-To: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl's message of 11 Oct 93 11: 42:26 GMT Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Oct11063438@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: news@fsa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca Organization: little lizard city References: <661@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 13:34:38 GMT Lines: 25 wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: > I have a FreeBSD system running in a network with some old Sun2/3 systems. > The Suns have YP running, and it would be nice if the FreeBSD machine > could also use YP. Is there any PD YP client stuff for FreeBSD around? > Or is YP something Sun is licensing? YP is commercial software that Sun licences to other vendors. That said; last year in some idle time I wrote the required YP client code, and that code is included in NetBSD. Your option is clear: delete FreeBSD and install NetBSD. :-) BTW, the code has been running on my NetBSD box for about 8 months, and no bugs have been found in the last 3 months (except that the passwd command still does some screwiness, but that's being looked at by someone else.) <tdr. ps. Actually, I should say "NetBSD boxes", because I also run YP on my NetBSD/hp300 box, a 68030@25MHz box about the same speed as your Sun3 machines. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca