[COLUG] shout out to Solaris Gurus

[Jim Wildman]

NIS = Network Information Service, AKA the yellow pages....

It is/was Sun's attempt at something similar to LDAP.  I don't think it
ever got widely accepted outside of Sun's universe, though it is
certainly prevelant there.  In true *nix fashion, it is a family of
tools (cli and daemon) that allow you to define users, hosts, resources
and groups of the above.

NIS itself is not very secure, though NIS+ is much better.  No idea how
important it is for certification.

All answers tentative and revokable if someone with Solaris experience corrects
me... :-) (Potter, here's an opportunity....)


On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Drew wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I know this is a little off topic, but I'm so confused.  Maybe I'm missing 
> something.  So in the Solaris installation it asks you what you want to use 
> for name resolution NIS, NIS+, DNS etc...  I am reading up on (Solaris and) 
> nfs right now.  I was reading about how NIS  can do this as well, and how 
> alledgedly it can do some LDAP type stuff.
>
> My question is what exactly IS NIS?  Is it Sun's swiss army knife (somthing 
> akin to linux' inetd), or is it a suite of applications? What's it supposed 
> to do?  How widely is it implemented (Basically trying to discern how 
> familiar I should become with it).  Does anyone know how familiar you have to 
> be to be SUN certified?
>
> Thanks;
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