Subject: Re: ypserv?
To: Andrew Wheadon <andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de>
From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/28/1996 13:52:56
FreeBSD uses a version written by Peter Eriksson <pem@signum.se> and 
covered under the GNU license.  It's available from the FreeBSD source 
tree, although I haven't tried it under NetBSD, it should work fine.

---Jake

On Tue, 28 May 1996, Andrew Wheadon wrote:

> > I was going to set a YP server on NetBSD-1.1, but it seems it isn't yet
> > implemented.
> > Is there ypserv in -current?
> > Will it be implemented in 1.2?
> 
> moj@stacken.kth.se wrote one in Sep 1994 and has been
> continually fixing and enhancing features on it since.
> The latest version I know of is ypserv-ALPHA-960121.tar.gz.
> 
> I used the Sep version for over a year for simple passwd stuff,
> and the 960121 has been running fine for 2 months now. I can't
> say how well it would work when stressed heavily though since 
> it is only used occasionally on this system, it does offer some
> nice features though which disable outside machines for getting
> my passwd file (before somebody silly tries it now ;-).
> 
> You can find a copy in ~ftp/pub/NetBSD/ports/ypserv here and
> the latest stuff on ftp.stacken.kth.se/moj/ypserv.
> 
> Cheerio
> -- 
> The cost of living hasn't affected it's popularity. (Mark Twain)
> current	release=doc host=wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de \ "NetBSD-current mirror"
> hostbase=/mit/ftp/pub/NetBSD base=/usr prefix=/usr backup delete use-rel-suffix
>