From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 27 17:11:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9C937B71A; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:11:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from mail2.uniserve.com ([204.244.156.10]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 14Xv0g-0007TJ-00; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:02:30 -0800 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:02:29 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@athena.uniserve.ca To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Brooks Davis , "O. Hartmann" , FreeBSD-STABLE , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS/YP problems on FBSD 4.2-STABLE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > "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