Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:02:29 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, FreeBSD-STABLE <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS/YP problems on FBSD 4.2-STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10102271700560.28118-100000@athena.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102271944270.1041-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:50:48PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > >> Well, I'm sorry bothering you again with these problems, > >> but they become serious to me, sorry. > >> > >> My intention was to build up a NIS/YP domain. But it seems > >> to be very complex. > > Not to be captious, but it has been my experience that open source > and/or free NIS/YP implementations are not exactly up to scrub. Most of > them work, to a certain extent, and that seems to be enough. This holds > true for all of the BSDs and linux. They tend to work well enough for > basic map sharing, and sometimes only to certain other OSes. When you > look for things like remote modification of account information, things > can start to break down. The code in FreeBSD probably works better than > the rest of them, but even it falls down on some of the higher > functionality of NIS. I genuinely wish I, or somebody better > qualified had the time to write a flexible, extensible, BSD > licensed YP implementation. Well, that doesn't help reduce the complexity though, which is the original poster's issue. NIS isn't necessarily an easy thing. I run a NIS master with 30,000 users in it. No problems. It doesn't fail either. I've been doing this since FreeBSD 2.2 > -- > Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net> > "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a > good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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