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AFAIK no. Also from personal experiance, only use NIS+ if you have a
really LARGE installation (many computers over many sites). The admin
headache of NIS+ is gigantic. So bad that even Sun Microsystems the
inventors of NIS+ don't even use it!
Getting off my soap box now..
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Keith Dart wrote:
> >On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
> >> I work for an ISP. We've got several boxes that share a lot of
> >> configuration information (password files, server configuration files,
> >> etc.). The idea of a robust, full-featured configuration system is very
> >> appealing, but I'm concerned whether folks in situations such as mine will
> >> be able to take advantage of it. I'm also concerned that, if Linuxconf
> >> is *not* designed to handle such a situation, whether its integration into
> >> the operating system would actually *disrupt* operation of our systems.
> >
> >Have you considered NIS+ (NYS)?
>
> Is NYS extensible? Can I add the ability to configure Apache, Sendmail,
> or even home-grown programs? I really don't know much about NIS and its
> descendants.
>
> --
> Steve Coile
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>
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