I had written:
> Does NIS provide anything like the functionality of kerberos tickets
> for distributed services like zephyr?
>
Derrick J. Brashear writes:
> Solaris comes with a minimal Kerberos so you can get tickets to use with the
> Krb4 RPC stuff, which of course you can use with NFS. Presumably with NIS as
> well.
Um, yes, but is this a kerberos server, or is this a way to get
kerberos tickets using a key in NIS? If the latter, then presumably
one could use NIS with AFS (although why one would want to do this
is a good question.)
-Marcus
