[TUHS] YP / NIS / NIS+ / LDAP

[Grant Taylor]

On 11/05/2018 03:43 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> NIS/YP is different than NIS+. NIS/YP is the old protocol. You could 
> basically bind to any server with the correct domain name, and look at 
> all the maps including passwd with it's encrypted passwords.
> 
> NIS+ is the hierarchical, encrypted, clients-need-keys, protocol.

ACK

> Almost two entirely different things. And "almost" is more like 
> 99.99999999999999999% different :)

I'm sorry, are you talking about NIS vs NIS+ or IPv4 vs IPv6?



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