How widespread is NIS support?

[Michael Hudson]

Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> writes:

> 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). 

Well;

$ man yp_get_default_domain
No manual entry for yp_get_default_domain
$ uname -a
Linux atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk 2.2.14-1.1.0 #1 Thu Jan 6 05:12:58 EST 2000 i686 unknown

And nismodule.c didn't build the last time I tried it... I suppose I
could install the yp-tools rpm, but I'm not in any hurry to...

Cheers,
M.

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