Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 17:06:23 -0500 (EST) From: Seth Perlman <seth@charm.net> To: stephen@farrell.org (stephen farrell) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, seth@fellspt.charm.net (Seth Perlman) Subject: Re: FreeBSD NIS Message-ID: <199801092206.RAA17374@fellspt.charm.net> In-Reply-To: <87hg7dzain.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> from "stephen farrell" at Jan 9, 98 01:56:48 pm
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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? I need to hack the source code(so I can't use the "better version") in order to replace the dbm map lookup with a direct Sybase database lookup for the etcpasswd row, etcgrouprow,etc. Some of the standard NIS commands would be turned off(like yppush/ypxfr, yppasswdd) since there wouldn't be DBM maps maintained for this application...I don't want to use some unsupported Linux Freebsd version of Sybperl/CTLIb which can break at any time should Sybase change something in its CLient Library implementation. At least NIS is fairly static and not subject to breakage if used in its most basic mode-- client sends key/lookuprequest to NIS server, server returns string to client. Please let me know if you think this last statement is incorrect. thanks...Seth > > > 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. thank you...my password-changing alternate method is already in production. > > > 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 >
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