i'm putting together a tutorial on network services, and i'm really uninterested in investing any time in covering NIS. anyone out there still using it? is it worth it?
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On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 09:18 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 09/26/2009 08:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm putting together a tutorial on network services, and i'm really uninterested in investing any time in covering NIS. anyone out there still using it? is it worth it?
Yes to both.
Ralf
Ditto
John
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, John Austin wrote:
On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 09:18 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 09/26/2009 08:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm putting together a tutorial on network services, and i'm really uninterested in investing any time in covering NIS. anyone out there still using it? is it worth it?
Yes to both.
Ralf
Ditto
ok, i stand properly chastised.
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On 09/26/2009 02:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm putting together a tutorial on network services, and i'm really uninterested in investing any time in covering NIS. anyone out there still using it? is it worth it?
And my company (Toronto, Ca) is also using it for all of our Unix and Linux systems.
One may combine classical NIS with blowfish or other hash algorithms, which will allow for long passwords. This way, NIS will become some more secure.
Joerg
Am 26.09.2009 16:20, schrieb Dave Ihnat:
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:07:16AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
And my company (Toronto, Ca) is also using it for all of our Unix and Linux systems.
I'm just curious...are all of you really using NIS, or NIS+?
Just askin',
Dave Ihnat ignatz@dminet.com
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm putting together a tutorial on network services, and i'm really uninterested in investing any time in covering NIS. anyone out there still using it? is it worth it?
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Yes, absolutely, in a mixed environment of Sun, Linux, and AIX! What a mess since not all of the platforms support the stronger hashing of the passwords.
Kevin
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm putting together a tutorial on network services, and i'm really uninterested in investing any time in covering NIS. anyone out there still using it? is it worth it?
Answers: yes, and "probably not"
It's not that NIS isn't used, but that it is unlikely to be deployed other than in a legacy organation, not a new use case. I personally think that the wikipedia coverage is adequate, it lets people know it when they see it, and put it in perspective. I think that's appropriate.
There are also many semi-standard offspring, NIS+, NIS with {DES,AES,Blowfish,Serpent}, etc.
Cover LDAP instead. ;-)
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