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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!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: wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de's message of 12 Oct 1993 11: 31:41 +0100 Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Oct12052011@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: news@fsa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca Organization: little lizard city References: <661@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <29cbe8$pca@wzv.win.tue.nl> <29e12d$ege@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 12:20:11 GMT Lines: 23 wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes: > Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> wrote: > > NetBSD has it running. > > I know. But I would prefer not to change my *whole* stuff for that. *chuckle* Sorry, but that's just not possible. YP has to be linked into nearly every program in the system. getpwent() and getgrent() have to call the YP library code... You'd need to replace every binary you have on the system. (For instance, I discovered a few weeks ago that my `less' was linked against a libc that didn't have YP in it. Until I recompile `less' it doesn't know any usernames that aren't in /etc/passwd, and it is possible that the "+" in /etc/passwd could be used as a security hole.) If you need YP, install NetBSD. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca