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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!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul 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 Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4gab4v$po0@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <kehletDMuHxv.CIK@netcom.com> <a57mxnl8hx.fsf@gozo.gmd.de> <4g2rqm$eum@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <slrn4ifhnf.651.coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= License error: The license for this .sig file has expired. You must obtain a new license key before any more witty phrases will appear in this space. =============================================================================