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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Is a YP/NIS client available? Message-ID: <wilko.750439326@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 12 Oct 93 15:22:06 GMT References: <661@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <DERAADT.93Oct11063438@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 25 deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: >wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: >> I have a FreeBSD system running in a network with some old Sun2/3 systems. >> The Suns have YP running, and it would be nice if the FreeBSD machine >> could also use YP. Is there any PD YP client stuff for FreeBSD around? >> Or is YP something Sun is licensing? >YP is commercial software that Sun licences to other vendors. >That said; last year in some idle time I wrote the required YP client >code, and that code is included in NetBSD. >Your option is clear: delete FreeBSD and install NetBSD. :-) He! I grabbed the source and I'll try to compile it for FreeBSD. If I'm gonna switch OSes for everything that I miss I must reinstall every week ;-) Wilko -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands