[rhelv6-beta-list] NIS auth during installation

[Paul Krizak]

+1.

Even if you're not using NIS for authentication, often it's still being 
used for other maps, like automount.

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On 04/28/10 09:27, Andy Feldt wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:18 -0300, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia
>> <marcelo.maia.garcia at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> So, there was no login with graphical interface.
>>>
>>> Is NIS being drop from RHEL? or will this available latter?
>>>
>>
>> I hope they drop NIS support, so now you have another reason to do not
>> use it anymore :-D
>>
>> Although, there is ypbind and ypserv packages available in the beta.
>
> Unfortunately, some of us have legacy systems which cannot
> be fully integrated into our mixed vendor environment with
> LDAP for a variety of reasons.  For us, NIS is the only choice.
> So, I am quite happy that NIS is still supported...
>
> Andy
>
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