NIS broken on 10.4.9?

[Dan Shoop]

At 11:55 AM -0500 5/30/07, John C. Welch wrote:
>On 5/30/07 11:27, "Bill Janssen" <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
>
>>  I see that the Bresink document now says that 10.4.9 is so riddled
>>  with startup inconsistencies and flaws, that it doesn't make sense to
>>  use NIS with it.  He chiefly seems to be talking about the use of
>>  remote NIS login accounts, though.
>>
>>  http://www.bresink.de/osx/nis.html#BugsTiger
>>
>>  Any solution to these problems in sight?
>
>For NIS? I can't see Apple putting a ton of time into it, anymore than
>they'd bring back the full AppleTalk suite.

Not even Sun is investing much time in NIS, nor have they for the 
last 10 years. ;)
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-dhan

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