Let me start with the caveat that I don't know NIS as well as I'd like to. We are using it at work on Solaris 2.6 and 8 as well as on Linux and it works fairly well. Linux does not support direct maps, however. We are also using netgroups to determine who has access to what machines. HTH, Eric On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:04:02PM -0500, Shawn Fertch wrote: > Anyone familiar enough with NIS on this? > > At work we have varying *nix platforms: > > Solaris (2.4, 2.6, 8) > HP-UX to 11 > AIX 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 some older versions well I believe > Tru64 4.0D, 4.0F, 5.1 > Linux > SCO > A few others I'm certain of > > Will NIS work cross platfoms, as well as being able to exclude certain > servers to which the person shouldn't have access to? Someone was looking > into it months ago, and said that it would not work because of the various > *nix platforms we run. > > > > -- > --- > Shawn > > "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." > -Bruce Lee > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >