Subject: Re: NIS+
To: LeRoy C. Miller III <qball@ansic.net>
From: Eric Fox <eric@fox.phoenix.az.us>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/20/2000 09:22:49
NetBSD does not support NIS+, but in Solaris you can turn on YP emulation
under NIS+ to allow it to also work with YP clients such as NetBSD.  I
believe you need simply need to uncomment the YPEMUL line in the rpc
script under /etc/rc2.d.

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On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, LeRoy C. Miller III wrote:

> I was curious, is NIS+ Support underway or intended for netbsd anytime?  yp*
> just mentions that it's NIS formerly known as YP, so I am making the assumption
> this also doesn't do NIS+.  
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> LeRoy.
> 
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