9 Apr
2020
9 Apr
'20
4:22 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:48 PM Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com wrote:
On Apr 8, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Mark LaPierre marklapier@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know where I can get NIS for CentOS 8?
$ dnf provides ypserv ... ypserv-4.0-6.20170331git5bfba76.el8.x86_64 : The NIS (Network Information Service) server
do people really still use NIS ?!? I mean, I remember using it in the
mid to late 90s on a network of Sun Solaris systems (after all, they virtually invented it), but we got rid of it by the mid 2000s because its simply not secure by any rational definition, and only really suitable on a network where everyone trusts everything attached to the network, that world simply doesn't exist anymore.
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-john r pierce
recycling used bits in santa cruz