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Re: Replacement for NIS? (was Re: Obtaining NIS domainname from Gatorbox)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ollivier Robert)
Tue Apr 18 18:16:35 1995
From: "Ollivier Robert" <roberto@hsc.fr.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 10:28:16 +0200
In-Reply-To: Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
"Re: Replacement for NIS? (was Re: Obtaining NIS domainname from Gatorbox)" (Apr 15, 4:35pm)
To: Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
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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