[OpenAFS] overide 8 char userids?

[Russ Allbery]

Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu> writes:

> NIS has an 8 character limit, but of course if you have AFS and kerberos
> you should not be using NIS.

Um.  NIS is still one of the best ways to distribute all the information
in /etc/passwd *other* than the actual password.  LDAP will eventually
work for this, but right now it still requires nsswitch modules, and many
Unix platforms don't support either yet.  However, every Unix supports
NIS.

NIS+ is a completely waste of time and at least on Solaris can't scale to
anywhere near the number of users as NIS, but NIS works quite nicely and
quite reliably for distributing essentially information, like username to
UID mappings.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>