Posted by: Administrator
on September 03, 2004 08:02 PM
Good articel but I don't think anyone will have to worry about NIS being end of life just yet. Mabye in 2-4 years with Solaris 11 or 12. Only for other reasons you might be forced to move to LDAP.
Statements about the support of NIS and NIS+ in Solaris 9:
What this really means in the actuall release(Solaris 9):
"For question 3:
There has been no statement on removal of NIS support, which means that any changes would be no earlier than Solaris 11, which is at least four years out."
So this means you will have to check the same information when Solaris 10 will be introduced officially end 2004. I guess it depends on the usage of NIS (how many Sun customers and others are still using NIS). And that is only the support by Sun in Solaris releases and training. I guess NIS will be around in Linux for some time in the future.
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NIS+ end of life, not NIS
Posted by: Administrator on September 03, 2004 08:02 PMStatements about the support of NIS and NIS+ in Solaris 9:
What this really means in the actuall release(Solaris 9):
"For question 3:
There has been no statement on removal of NIS support, which means that any changes would be no earlier than Solaris 11, which is at least four years out."
So this means you will have to check the same information when Solaris 10 will be introduced officially end 2004. I guess it depends on the usage of NIS (how many Sun customers and others are still using NIS). And that is only the support by Sun in Solaris releases and training. I guess NIS will be around in Linux for some time in the future.
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