From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 11 16:09:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA28064 for current-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 16:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.uniserve.com (mercury.uniserve.com [204.191.197.248]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA28058; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 16:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haven.uniserve.com (shell.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by mercury.uniserve.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id QAA20605; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 16:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 16:13:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: David Langford cc: Bradley Dunn , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: longer usernames In-Reply-To: <199704112203.MAA00895@caliban.dihelix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, David Langford wrote: > This is great. This is the first time I have seen anyone actually > say whether or not FreeBSD to FreeBSD NIS may work. > > Thank you. > > -David Langford > langfod@dihelix.com Huh? Why not? FreeBSD NIS is great: myserver# wc /var/yp/master.passwd 12516 25956 933750 /var/yp/master.passwd myserver# That's 12,516 users in a NIS table, and as I understand it, this is a small site. The developer uses NIS in a 30K user environment. Tom