Yet again thanks for the people who replied.
I wrote:
>
> This is a very simply question, but before I start install/testing
> NIS+ I would like to know what I should call my domain.
> Looking at the documentation it seems to follow DNS names.
>
> Do I require to do this or can I have any name?
>
The general feeling is that I can call my domainname anything
I like and for security reasons it is best NOT to have NIS+
name the same as DNS name.
The only thing which you must do is have at least two words in
your domainname with a dot separating them (my.name , sun.com,
security.domain.name ) otherwise NIS+ search mechanism will be broken.
One person out of 6 was still unhappy with NIS+, since it is still
slow and there are some times problems for users logging in after a
system crash.
At the moment I am still running NIS, but I will now give it a
try. Fingers Crossed!!
Thanks again to
Jarod Jenson <jarodj@eesun2.tamu.edu>
Jas (Matthew K) <matt@uts.EDU.AU>
Wolfgang Leideck <leideck@othello.informatik.uni-mannheim.de>
Simon-Bernard Drolet <droletb@CCG.RNCan.gc.ca>
Gyula Szokoly <szgyula@skysrv.Pha.Jhu.EDU>
Cyril Plisko <imp@orbotech.co.il>
Cheers
Andrew Watkins
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