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From: hohmuth@gozo.gmd.de (Michael Hohmuth SET.RS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NIS+ support? *smirk*
Date: 16 Feb 1996 13:12:34 GMT
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In article <kehletDMuHxv.CIK@netcom.com> kehlet@netcom.com (Steven
Kehlet) writes:

> I think NIS+ is a major pain.. but I was wondering if anyone's 
> looking at it, or thinking of taking a look at it.
> 
> 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+?".

There's a freeware NIS+ client library which perhaps could be ported
to FreeBSD; it should be at <URL:ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/NYS/libs/>.

(I've never used it myself (I didn't even look at it), I've just
remembered the pointer.)

Michael
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