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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!olivea!decwrl!apple!kaleida.com!conklin From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: "Diskless" Workstations and NIS Date: 28 Jan 1994 02:46:44 GMT Organization: Winning Strategies, Inc. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <CONKLIN.94Jan27184644@ngai.kaleida.com> References: <a09878.759716595@giant> Reply-To: conklin@kaleida.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ngai.kaleida.com In-reply-to: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca's message of 28 Jan 94 00:23:15 GMT In article <a09878.759716595@giant> a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: Curt> Also, there seems to be no NIS server available for NetBSD 0.9. What Curt> would you recommend as a similar system for keeping a common set of Curt> /etc/passwd information and the like? You might look into Project Athena's Hesiod. Although neither client nor server support has been ported/integrated into NetBSD, it is probably easier than writing the NIS server suite, since it sits atop BIND. --jtc