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From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Is a YP/NIS client available?
Message-ID: <wilko.750439326@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 12 Oct 93 15:22:06 GMT
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deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:

>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. :-)

He! I grabbed the source and I'll try to compile it for FreeBSD. If
I'm gonna switch OSes for everything that I miss I must reinstall every
week ;-)

Wilko

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