How widespread is NIS support?

[John W. Baxter]

In article <3d1ysv8v7e.fsf at ute.cnri.reston.va.us>, Andrew Kuchling 
<akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote:

> Does anyone have an idea how widespread NIS support is these days?
> Patch #103544 changes the 2.1 setup.py script to compile the NIS
> module on any Unix platform, and I'm wondering if that's too
> ambitious.  Is anyone out there using a Unix *without* NIS?  (Try 'man
> yp_get_default_domain' and see if you get anything, for a start.)  Are
> the NIS functions part of libc, or in a different library (such as
> libnsl on Solaris). 
> 
> --amk

We don't run NIS on our farm of a few BSDi machines and several Linux 
(Red Hat, which is beginning to look like "unfortunately" to me, but 
we'll see how 7.1 is).

I don't run it on my laptop's Linux (safely in 6.2 at the moment), I 
don't thing the boss runs it on his.

Whether or not we could compile it, I don't know.  But if the code in 
Python expects NIS to actually *do* something, we'll have a problem.

  --John

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John W. Baxter   Port Ludlow, WA USA  jwbnews at scandaroon.com