Hi all, I see notices in the Solaris 10 Docs that NIS+ may not be available in the future. Has a date been set for it's demise?
Also I notice that the NIS+ Documentation is missing from the Solaris Express Documentation Cluster. Is this a mistake, or is it's removal intended for Solaris 11 (or whatever it's called?) I know it never caught on, but I always liked NIS+ alot more than NIS. It had amny additional useful features, and I'd like to keep using it. Has the source for it been released to OpenSolaris? so the community can continue maintaining it if desired? I know I probably should just switch to LDAP. But I haven't had time to see what real benefits that provides, and I don't like the idea of running something as heavy as the Sun Java Directory Server, when I could use something built in to the OS. Not to mention LDAP seems at first glance to be pretty complicated, and my needs right now are very lightweight, closer to NIS, but for me atleast, NIS+ is no more complicated than NIS because of how long I've been using it, and I like the extra features it provides. Also I've read through the NIS, and NIS+ to LDAP migration Docs, and it seems like the NIS+ to LDAP migration is the more seemless one to make. So I'm considering setting up my new netwrok with NIS+ but I'd like to understand how long it will be useful? -Kyle _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
