From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 12 12:41:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA22307 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 12:41:16 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA22301 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 12:41:14 -0700 Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id OAA17920; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:40:42 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199507121940.OAA17920@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: NIS+ To: JOHN@gab.unt.edu (John Booth) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 14:40:42 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5F058A5900@gab.unt.edu> from "John Booth" at Jul 12, 95 02:07:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Any plans to support NIS+? Speaking from secondhand knowledge, "most likely when hell freezes over" - as when we had asked Sun about NIS+ documentation, we were told that it was a "propietary protocol". That suprised me, especially as we are a Solaris source licensee and OEM, but then again this was quite some time ago and this was around the time NIS+ was introduced. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Software Engineer, UNIX/Network Hacker, Etc. 414/362-3617 Marquette Electronics, Inc. - R&D - Milwaukee, WI jgreco@mei.com