You can use NIS if you want to open up your systems. Nis has more holes in it than a screen door. It's actually worse than sendmail. Use ldap. Terry On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:17:53 -0500you write: >NIS is still the standard used in most unix networks, including >Solaris where it was born, actually on the predecessor SunOS. >Sun creaited NIS+ as a successor but it never gained ground >over NIS. You can't really go wrong with NIS, it is still the >most widely supported naming service after DNS. > > -- Doug > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >