I dont see any NIS or NIS+ on handbook. I tried setup the NIS+
and I am not experience with these feature. anyone can point
where the HOWTO NIS or NIS+?

-trev

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:02:44AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> In some mail from Roger Marquis, sie said:
> >
> > Samuel Chow wrote:
> > > How about NIS? I use it at home with a total
> > > of two machines and one users.
> >
> > I've used NIS with over 30,000 users, and adminitered 2 domains
> > with over 2,500 users and experienced near zero problems. NIS+
> > may be a bit more difficult given it's Kerberos roots but it is
> > being used successfully in shops with hundreds of NIS+ accounts
> > and hosts. Adminning Sun NIS servers and clients is neither
> > difficult nor complicated even with NFS and automount. Not sure
> > if the same is true for FreeBSD servers however.
>
> Where I work, we have experience with a production NIS+ database of
> double the size you have for NIS. After many requests to Sun, we're
> given the impression that they know of nobody else using NIS+ to such
> a large scale (even to the 1000s or 10,0000s). NIS+ is secure, if you
> don't have to do NIS, but you must get all your procedures *correct*,
> especially when changing passwords, or you are "fucked".
>
> Darren
> p.s. sorry for the french, but I believe that sums it up perfectly.
>
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