[geeks] Solaris 9 changes

[velociraptor]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:46:55 -0500, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> NIS+ will NOT be missed.  I had to deal with it in '95, and I *still* have
> a bad taste in my mouth.  I heard that NIS+ was implemented for one or two
> big customers, and Sun themselves continued/continues to use NIS.

And Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
>The problem with NIS+ is that most people expected
> it to be as easy to configure/maintain as NIS (after all, it's just NIS,
> plus!) where it isn't...

Well, the problem with NIS+ is a bit bigger than that.

Having worked at what is probabably the largest installation
of NIS+ ($Big_Networking_Co), and having the entire NIS+
domain melt down to the point that not a single engineer
could log in for 3 days while all the dbs were recovered and
duplicated around...

Basically, NIS+ will *not* work over a certain size and with
greater than some amount of latency between "masters".

The end result, since mgmt required that all engineers be
able to log in *anywhere* (India, Europe, East Coast, West
Coast) transparently (yes, NFS mounted home dirs over the 
WAN), we ended up building out "peer" domains, with db
exported, copied around using external tools, and imported.

*Very* ugly.  Marginally better than the flat password files
we were using prior to NIS+.

Dunno if they have managed to get LDAP in place or not at
this point.

=Nadine=