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To: Seth Perlman <seth@charm.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD NIS
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From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>
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Seth Perlman <seth@charm.net> writes:

> Are there any ports of FreeBSD NIS to SunOS 4.1 or Solaris being used
> in mission-critical applications?

Not sure what you mean... why would anyone port freebsd's NIS to sunos 
when sunos already has a better version?

> How well does a FreeBSD PC running NIS talk to Solaris machines?  Which
> commands if any are not usable?

I connect to an NIS+ server (running in NIS compat. mode) on a solaris 
2.5 machine from my freebsd box.  I cannot change passwords  from the
freebsd box (this is a feature of nis+--a machine needs nis+
credentials before it can change values on nis+ server), but otherwise 
it's worked flawlessly.

> Any help appreciated...thanks

Hopefully this is of some help--i suspect you want more specifics
which I cannot really provide you with.

--

Steve Farrell