----- Original Message -----
| On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote:
|
| > Why? I'll grant NIS is insecure at best for login auth, and should
| > not
| > be used for that purpose (at least not outside the lab).
| >
| > But for other purposes e.g. automount maps, NIS is simple and easy
| > and
| > still functional.
| >
| > I'll also readily agree I wouldn't want NIS on internet-facing
| > systems,
| > but for things like automount maps on the internal corporate LAN, is
| > it really a catastropic problem?
|
| The problem you get is when you compare it with LDAP.
|
| jh
There is no comparison. NIS is *much* faster than LDAP for these purposes.
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