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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.ci.com.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wariat.org!sed.psrw.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!gt-news!coleman From: coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NIS+ support? *smirk* Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:38:17 GMT Organization: School of Mathematics, Ga. Tech Lines: 14 Message-ID: <slrn4ifhnf.651.coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> References: <kehletDMuHxv.CIK@netcom.com> <a57mxnl8hx.fsf@gozo.gmd.de> <4g2rqm$eum@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> Reply-To: coleman@math.gatech.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: redwood.skiles.gatech.edu X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.5) | : > I work at an ISP; a bunch of the guys there are ex-Sun freaks. | : > So I managed to get FreeBSD into the office, but then they said, | : > "So where's NIS+?". | | Nobody has NIS+ except Solaris at this point. To me, it's just one more | reason to avoid Solaris. Solaris supports both NIS and NIS+. Solaris 2.5 comes with native versions of all the NIS utilities. Why is that a reason to avoid Solaris? Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu