On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Matt Tilley wrote:
> Thats funny, I thought NIS+ was Sun's baby a couple of years ago (just
> never took off - it was going to be the replacement for NIS (replacement
> needed because of NIS's security holes)). I'm sure that I'll be
> corrected if I'm off mark here.
Yeah, it was written by Sun to fix NIS... problem is it's way too unwieldy
to manage and provides only marginal security improvements. So everyone
just stayed with NIS -- including Sun.
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "Who watches the watchmen?"
-Juvenal, Satires, VI, 347
Derek D. Martin | Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive | A Nortel Company
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