From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 15 19:22:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA23384 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:22:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA23371 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 19:22:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id NAA09933; Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:52:11 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701160322.NAA09933@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Netscape and NIS In-Reply-To: <1950.853384387@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 15, 97 07:13:07 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 13:52:10 +1030 (CST) Cc: pgilley@metronet.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > Unfortunately I discovered today that users can't even use the Web > > browser unless they are in the local password database. So now I > > not only need a new mail reader, but a new browser too. > > Hmmm. I wonder what the Linux version of Netscape does WRT NIS. :-) No idea. It frightens me to think, but if it gets our friend here out of a hole then we win. 8) (actually, he does, but you get my drift.) Any noise on our chances wrt. this yet? > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[