Re: anyone out there still using NIS?

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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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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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