[NTLUG:Discuss] NIS

[Leroy Tennison]

I heard something at work that I haven't been able to find an answer to 
easily via Google so I'm looking for someone who knows.  What I heard 
was that, if you didn't run nscd, it effectively disabled the NIS 
client.  Something about that doesn't sound quite right to me but I've 
never worked with NIS so I'd rather ask that assume something.  The 
context was Solaris but it raises the general question as to whether a 
caching mechanism has an impact on services such as NIS (and maybe 
others like it).

A related question, what's the best way to insure that NIS client 
functionality is disabled (that's the goal)?  I realize that with *NIX 
there's probably a half dozen ways to accomplish this so I'll clarify a 
bit: What's the optimum method as far as ease of implementation without 
too much risk that an inadvertent configuration "oops" would nullify it?

Thanks for your help.