From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 27 22:40:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A2037B71C; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:40:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id WAA19863; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:39:22 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda19861; Tue Feb 27 22:39:22 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f1S6dHg34448; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdP34427; Tue Feb 27 22:38:23 2001 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f1S6cMq06243; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:38:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102280638.f1S6cMq06243@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdyP4035; Tue Feb 27 22:37:35 2001 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: schubert To: Tom Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , Brooks Davis , "O. Hartmann" , FreeBSD-STABLE , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS/YP problems on FBSD 4.2-STABLE In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:02:29 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 22:37:35 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Tom writes: > > 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 Same here. I've been using NIS on my network at home since 2.0.5. Just installed -STABLE CVSupped as of Feb 27 04:15. Works like a charm. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message