[NTLUG:Discuss] NIS

[Greg Edwards]

Leroy Tennison wrote:

> 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 

> 
> 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 

NIS doesn't require nscd, unless there's been a major change to NIS in 
the last 2 years or so.  nscd is just a cache service.

Why do you want to disable the NIS client functionality?  If you don't 
want NIS on a client just don't start the daemon on that client.

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Gregory A Edwards, PMP
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