[COLUG] shout out to Solaris Gurus

[Brian Miller]

On Friday 15 June 2007 3:35:08 pm Drew wrote:
> Hey,
> 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).
NIS is an OLD directory service that SUN developed, which would allow you to 
use a single userID and password on multiple UNIX hosts.  SUN has stopped 
supporting it, in favor of LDAP directory services.  Probably the only thing 
you need to know about it is that you aren't using it, and you don't want to 
select it when installing a Solaris server.

> Does anyone 
> know how familiar you have to be to be SUN certified?
Haven't tried for this, so I don't know.