Re: Replacement for NIS? (was Re: Obtaining NIS domainname from Gatorbox)

[roberto () hsc fr net (Ollivier Robert)]

On Apr 15,  4:35pm, Jon Peatfield wrote:

> A good starting point might be the 386/BSD, Linux YP implementation.
> Since the source is available you can add whatever security measures you
> like to it.  I'm not sure if their ypserv/ypbind are drop-in replacements
> for the ONC versions, (e.g. if the file formatt etc are the same), but it
> shouldn't be too hard to check.

The FreeBSD   2.0+ implementation is  compatible with   Sun's YP and should
interoperate without problem.  A lot of  bugs have been fixed in -current's
sources. It supports everything including netgroups and s on.

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