NIS broken on 10.4.9?

John C. Welch jwelch at bynkii.com
Wed May 30 09:55:33 PDT 2007


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.

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