[geeks] Solaris 9 changes

Kevin kevin at mpcf.com
Wed Jul 28 08:49:35 CDT 2004


Um, no, that's quote enough.

What were the supposed advantages of NIS+ over NIS classic?

/KRM

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:45:36 -0500 (CDT)
"Mike Hebel" <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:

> > I've never used/setup NIS(+) at all.  Just out of curiosity,
> > what was so bad about NIS+?
> 
> Beside the facy that it's unstable, occasionally doesn't
> recognize a machine or a user, a machine will not boot - at
> least a Solaris one - if it can't contact the NIS+ server, the
> user/system list occasionally gets corrupted, need I go on?
> Mike Hebel



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