Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

Hi there --

We use NIS on our site which is a mixture of HP-UX and Linux systems.

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ben McGinnes Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

On 2/10/10 4:27 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:

Hello listmates,

I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to anything but NIS thus far. See here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-f... is-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/

http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html

Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for authentication?

Solaris still favours it, but mainly because Sun invented it. Most of the rest of us don't bother. I certainly haven't seen it anywhere except exclusively SunOS/Solaris based networks for ages.

Regards, Ben

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