[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI NIS Server

[Richard L. Hamilton]

I haven't tried NIS on OpenSolaris.

But I can point out a problem if you have a Solaris NIS master and Linux (or Mac, when they supported it) NIS slaves. Solaris uses dbm maps (which can have problems when a value is too large, which can happen easily in netgroup). Other implementations use something else (gdbm or db or whatever) that doesn't have that problem. But transfers from master to slave use ypxfrd, which pretty much transfer the raw dbm file, which of course is NOT compatible with the other formats. So a mix of master and slave won't work if one is Solaris and the other isn't.

> On Oct 22, 2025, at 20:35, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
> 
> ypinit -m is hopelessly broken (no /var/yp/Makefile for starters),
> as is ypinit -s (compains about missing smf services).  And I don't
> see a network/nis/server service to start things up.
> 
> Is OI really incapable of being a NIS server?  What am I missing?
> 
> --lyndon
> 
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