W. Chris Shank on Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:43:16 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Solaris 8 or Linux on Sparc?


Really - we just want single authentication across these sun machines
(possibly across all the unix/linux machines). How esle to do this with
linux/unix? There is an Active Directory - which thought about trying to
connect with. Bringing in another directory would be cumbersome. Any
have experience with an alternative? 

It was my understanding that NIS+ was encrypted - these machines wil be
in the DMZ. Upn some brief reading - this may not be the case?

Appreciate all the feedback.



On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 16:53, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:24:13PM -0400, Michael C. Toren wrote:
> > Debian does indeed have an nis package available for the sparc
> > architecture:
> > 
> > 	Package: nis
> > 	Priority: extra
> > 	Section: net
> > 	Installed-Size: 716
> > 	Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
> > 	Architecture: sparc
> > 	Version: 3.9-6.1
> > 	Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libgdbmg1, netbase, make, portmap
> > 	Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.17)
> > 	Conflicts: netstd (<=1.26)
> > 	Filename: pool/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_sparc.deb
> > 	Size: 179352
> > 	MD5sum: 8b38cd4b37a31316457312c7fac6b1ce
> > 	Description: Clients and daemons for the Network Information Services
> > 	(NIS).
> > 	 The nis package allows you to use the NIS services from a NIS server or
> > 	 to set up your own NIS server. NIS is mostly used to let several machines
> > 	 in a network share the same account information (eg the password file).
> > 	 NIS was formerly called Yellow Pages (YP).
> 
> That shows an entire lack of NIS+ support, which Chris seemed to be
> suggesting he might need...
> 
> But I think Debian's behind the times on this (as with so many
> things).
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W. Chris Shank
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