Ben, > Make sure you add 'nis' as an option in /etc/nsswitch.conf for passwd: and > group: and it will work with anything that uses the local libs (libc) for > getting local informations. Any program worth it's code should do this, I > don't know of any that don't.
I hope that includes pine. Most of my users use pine for mail and they quite like it. > As long as you setup your client systems so that they don't use broadcast > for NIS server discovery then you are safe there. Also make sure that the > NIS server only answers requests to the local network by using > /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} on the server (I think NIS is compiled with > libwrap atleast, if not there is a NIS file to set this up also). Ok. I didn't know you could make NIS only to listen requests from specific machines. I guess passwords are sent clear-text, but then, we're supposed to have an intelligent concentrator/hub so the machines only receive packets for their own IPs. Whatever, I've decided to install NIS in the future. That is, after christmas. ;) Thanks a lot for your help. -- p.