>I don't think this is necessary. It is perfectly legal to use NIS clients
>with an NIS+ server (i.e. it should be fine to use a Solaris NIS+ server
>with linux NIS clients). Can't attest to the fact that it actually works,
>though, as we're still using a SunOS NIS server.
i assume there is significant administrative overhead in running an nis+
server even if you have no clients. at least, running an nis+ server is
a royal pain (oops, did you remove /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START? you'll have
to rebuild your maps from files. oh yeah, there ARE no files to rebuild from,
since you used admintool to add your users and it doesn't touch your
/etc/passwd when it does so...
hope you have a window open in which you'd run niscat passwd somewhere within
the scrollback buffer. this is an actual scenario that actually happened
to me, and separately to another fellow i know.)
sure, it's possible (so say the docs), no, i don't think it would be
comfortable.
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