From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 12:45:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA04888 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from portal.spi.net ([199.238.225.153]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA04883 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@MindBender.HeadCandy.com [199.238.225.168]) by portal.spi.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA03419; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:45:42 -0700 Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA10753; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606221945.MAA10753@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Michael Hancock cc: Bradley Dunn , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Longer usernames? In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 22 Jun 96 20:59:05 +0900. Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 12:45:38 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> > > > > What do they do about NIS? Truncate the usernames? Bad bad >> > > > > bad. >> > > > BSDI 2.1 doesn't have NIS. >> Especially for a company that markets its product as an "Internet >> Server". If you are going to base the major selling point of your >> product on its networking functionality, NIS seems to me to be almost >> a requirement. >If you're a Sun shop. >I rather use rdist than NIS. There is a need for something better than >either solution though. LDAP/RFC1777? Hesiod. Kerberos. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------