Re: NIS+

[Scott Barman <scott @ Disclosure . COM>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Finn T Andersen wrote:

> There has been a lot of good information and suggestions about NIS recently,
> however, noone has mentioned anything about NIS+.
> I have heard that NIS+ should be a very secure system, but in fact I have never
> heard about anyone who was using it. Is it available, and on what platforms ?

It's available for Solaris 2.3 and later and only from Sun (or any of
their OEMs/VARs).  NIS+ has a real problem interoperating with NIS, which
most people have (if they're using NIS).
 
scott barman
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