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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: "Diskless" Workstations and NIS
Date: 28 Jan 1994 02:46:44 GMT
Organization: Winning Strategies, Inc.
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In-reply-to: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca's message of 28 Jan 94 00:23:15 GMT

In article <a09878.759716595@giant> a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
Curt> Also, there seems to be no NIS server available for NetBSD 0.9. What
Curt> would you recommend as a similar system for keeping a common set of
Curt> /etc/passwd information and the like?

You might look into Project Athena's Hesiod.  

Although neither client nor server support has been ported/integrated
into NetBSD, it is probably easier than writing the NIS server suite,
since it sits atop BIND.

	--jtc