[NTLUG:Discuss] NIS no longer developed?

[Greg Edwards]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 
>> Hello all:
>>
>> If I look at the Linux NIS homepage, it looks like the product
>> is no longer being developed.  Is that true?
> 
> 
> Probably not developed since it is complete.  Where do you think it
> needs to go?  Granted an good automounter still needs
> some development work, but that's a side tool often integrated
> with NIS deployments... but not a part of NIS.


> 
> I probably stand alone in this boat in the Linux community.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris

No your not alone!!

I've looked at LDAP 3 or 4 times and each look tells me that I'll be 
spending days not hours trying to integrate it into my network.  I also 
get a real sick feeling that I won't be able to maintain 100% up time 
during the transition.  So as long as I can find and install NIS I'll be 
sticking with it.

As far as security goes, it has not proved to be a problem since I don't 
allow external logins.  I don't allow NIS through the firewall to the 
outside world so nobody even knows it's running unless they are inside.

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