From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 30 16:03:36 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA04636 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 16:03:36 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA04630 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 16:03:35 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA03845; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 16:03:14 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Wankle Rotary Engine cc: kuku@acds, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ypserv for FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Dec 94 18:22:20 EST." <199412302322.SAA01029@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 16:03:14 -0800 Message-ID: <3844.788832194@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Compile yes, work yes! :) Actually, it seems to work fairly well. > I have the ypserv-0.11 package up on a 2.1.0-Development system right > now. It does seem to work with FreeBSD's client-side YP stuff, though > I think FreeBSD's client-side stuff still needs a little work (ps > sometimes reports that processes owned by me are owned by 'daemon' and > ls, in some cases, says that files owned by me are owned by 'root' -- I > think I smell a library problem). > > What I don't have working yet is yppasswd and yppasswdd, though I > have the Linux versions of those too. I also don't know if this > ypserv package supports yp-xfr. I haven't tried building the server > in the yps-0.21 package yet, though that's next on my agenda. > > The question is, do we really want to port these over and use them? > It shouldn't be too much trouble (I want to convert them from gdbm to db > so it won't be necessary to ship libgdbm with FreeBSD), but I think this > stuff is GPL'ed. I could live with that. I could really use a complete yp* set so that I could just create users on freefall and have thud mirror this. Right now, it's just an admin pain! Jordan