Replacing NIS [was:NIS - "Could not read ypservers map" during "make"]

[Mark Komarinski]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:28:40PM -0400, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, "mark" == Mark Komarinski wrote:
> 
>   mark> All you've done is reimplement NIS - poorly.
> 
> Well, that was basically the gist of the conversation, how to 
> implementt NIS without the flaws of NIS.  I don't think I did it 
> poorly, and I readily admitted that there were some inherent flaws in 
> that would need to be worked out.
 
Perhaps what I should say is:

Given higher stability of today's OSs and networks, NIS is working
pretty well.

NIS has flaws, but most of the flaws are due to be fixed by LDAP.
Once LDAP authentication gets supported by more OSs, I think it
will start to take over.

> Had the web, ssh, rsync, and rdist been around in 1983 when NIS was 
> released to the wild, I honestly believe they would have done things 
> a lot better and a lot more elegantly this NIS is now.

Right, and we'd be talking about a method of just pulling what you need
when you need it today because networks are far more reliable today than
they were 20 years ago.

-Mark
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/attachments/20030618/5fbc7bde/attachment.bin