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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: NIS for Linux?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.125156.24986@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:51:56 GMT
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- Franco Venturi (franco@deis20.cineca.it) wrote:
- : anyone has thought of porting NIS (Network Information Services) for Linux?
- : NIS (formerly called YP=Yellow Pages) is a distributed data base that allows
- : Unix machines (I know Suns, HPs and IBMs, at least) to share some data bases,
- : tipically /etc/passwd /etc/hosts and so on... In this way, the logins and other
- : data can be shared by many machines.
- : Franco Venturi
- : Dept. of Electronics
- : Bologna, Italy
-
- Good idea, however where do you get either the spec or software for NIS
- do you have to pay money to Sun for these?
-
- Also you need to either alter or override the standard routines in
- libc, and there is a possible problem with hostnames.
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