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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NIS+ support? *smirk*
Date: 19 Feb 1996 17:14:07 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Richard Coleman
(coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu) had the courage to say:

: | : > 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?

Don't get into a debate with me about Solaris. I don't like Solaris
because I don't like Solaris. I have summarily decided that it blows
chunks and nobody is going to change my mind. Industry trends are
irrelevant. Sales and performance figures are irrelevant. Rational
arguments are irrelevant. Resistance is futile.

That aside, are you saying that Sun decided to include ypserv, ypxfr,
yppush, rpc.yppasswdd and friends with Solaris 2.5? Last I heard, you
needed to the NSkit in order to get these things, though I wouldn't mind
being proven wrong. My impression was that Sun wanted to wean people
away from NIS v2 so that they would shift to NIS+. If they've decided
to include all the NIS v2 code with Solaris 2.5, this means they may
have had second thoughts (or people bullied them into it, which would
be just grand as far as I'm concerned).

At any rate, it'll be a while before I get my brain wrapped around
NIS+ tightly enough to be able to make it work in FreeBSD. I still
have some NIS v2 stuff pending as it is. Of course, if somebody else
wants to work in it and save me the trouble, I won't stand in their
way. :)

-Bill 

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