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Re: [LUG] MyBorg

 

Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Tom Potts wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone was interested in helping develop  MyBorg.
>> MyBorg starts as one Linux computer. You can configure multiple users 
>> on it
>> (LDAP?) and many services.
>
> This is more or less what NIS (aka YP) was intended for.
>
> I just did an NIS master server install for a new client too. I'm glad 
> it still lives on!
>
> Now if only those *4£kers in MS had used something that was compatable 
> with the Unixy passwordy mechanism they could have had NIS too.
Doesn't Microsoft's Services for Unix (or whatever they've changed the 
name to this time) support NIS?

Grant.

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