26 Mar
2010
26 Mar
'10
1:54 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 09:51:53AM -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote:
That's the heart of it... NIS was fine in a younger and more innocent day :) NIS+ was ostensibly more secure but was a pain to get quite perfect. In many of the shops I visited that were using NIS+ there were lots of misconfigurations that exposed more than planned.
And Sun, the pushers of NIS+, dropped NIS+ support before they dropped NIS support :-)
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rgds
Stephen