Re: Obtaining NIS domainname from Gatorbox

[dave () esi com au (Dave Horsfall)]

On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, der Mouse wrote:

> > Maybe a good reason to join the crowd and not run NIS?
>
> I wish.  It's clear to me that NIS is a big problem.  But what else is
> out there?  We have a definite need to share passwd databases across
> many machines, from multiple vendors, none of which we have source code
> to.  How close to a solution can we get?

A wild idea, straight off the top of my head: what about using the DNS
mechanisms?  Apologies if this has been suggested and flamed before...

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