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Fedora considers removing NIS support (is removing NFS the next step?)

Fedora considers removing NIS support (is removing NFS the next step?)

Posted Oct 29, 2021 23:35 UTC (Fri) by dc786 (subscriber, #128390)
In reply to: Fedora considers removing NIS support (is removing NFS the next step?) by faramir
Parent article: Fedora considers removing NIS support

When I also owned Sun computers, I did use NIS and NFS. In a large shared site, NFS would be much harder to run without NIS. Is Network Appliance considering dropping support for NIS?
Have they already? NIS is a major contributor to productivity of sysadmins. But my computers are only running Linux, OpenBSD, Windows 7 or 8.1 or Android these days. There are only about 10 of them and they don't have much need for sharing files or administration. Only 4 are in daily use. But I'm retired.

I searched for a comparison of NIS and Microsoft's Active Directory, and found a comment that one site used Novell's SLES for something they considered a superset of both at
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1247492

But, NIS is not just for passwd (users), group, and a few admin domains that LDAP, Hesiod or Kerberos might handle. I never did get any of those three to work, by the way. I tried quite a bit, more than once, with LDAP. I did use some NIS non-default maps to set up mounting user home directories from numerous filesystem partitions that a large site requires via what Sun called automount.

Here are the 25 default maps for NIS (I used
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/817-4843/anis1-24268... to find these):
bootparams
ethers.byaddr
ethers.byname
group.bygid
group.byname
hosts.byaddr
hosts.byname
mail.aliases
mail.byaddr
netgroup.byhost
netgroup.byuser
netgroup
netid.byname
netmasks.byaddr
networks.byaddr
networks.byname
passwd.adjunct.byname
passwd.byname
passwd.byuid
protocols.byname
protocols.bynumber
rpc.bynumber
services.byname
services.byservice
ypservers


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