If anyone is interested, I have ported a version of linux's NIS client software to Cygwin. The ypbind, ypcat, ypmatch and ypwhich programs all seem to work OK. Some other binaries build, but I have not tested them.
I have not done any integration into other parts of Cygwin such as login or rshd (yet). Nor have I packaged this in Cygwin format.
For the moment, you can find the files at:
http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/nis/
There are three linux tar files, a script to build and install from the tar files, and the output from one of my builds.
One thing I found was that Cygwin's getdomainname() function returns the DNS domain name. It is supposed to return the NIS domain name. Reasonable behavior, I suppose, since Cygwin does not support NIS. -- Joe Buehler
