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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 1997 16:13:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>
Cc:        Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: longer usernames
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970411161150.579a-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704112203.MAA00895@caliban.dihelix.com>

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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




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