On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 05:11:11AM -0500, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > > Some of you probably have seem me asking about this in #debian: > > I'm trying to setup NIS+ on Debian.. I have a number of machines which > I would like to use NIS+ for authentication and also for autofs > mapping.. Has anyone actually succeeded in using NIS+ with Debian? > > I've currently taken nis-utils.tar.gz from ftp.kernel.org and hacked > into it a bit. It's half-working.. it asks for the password twice on > login, and autofs doesn't see the auto_master table on NIS+.. > > Also, if NIS+ is just plainly out of the question, are there any good > alternatives to NIS+? Keep in mind that it should provide security > like NIS+ (column & row permissions), and work with sun and linux > clients.. > > Michael Janssen - Jamuraa > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
NSSwitch and LDAP are much better than NIS. Don't use NIS unless you have to. Check out www.rage.net.