Linux NIS+ Tools: nis-utils

The current version of the nis-utils is: 1.4.1

The NIS+ Utilities are a collection of NIS+ administration and testing tools. They contain: nisaddcred, nisaddent, niscat, nischgrp, nischmod, nischown, nischttl, nisdefaults, niserror, nisgrep, nisgrpadm, nisinit, nislog, nisls nismatch, nismkdir, nispath, nisping, nisrm, nisrmdir, nisshowcache, nisstat, nistbladm, nistest and nisupdkeys.

With this, Linux could act as full NIS+ client. The shadow support from nispasswd is missing, but the other parts works. There is is a first try to write a NIS+ Server from me, but the current sources are in pre-alpha stage and doesn't work. It looks like there will be never a NIS+ server for Linux.

Read the nis-utils NEWS and ChangeLog file for more information.

• nis-utils-1.4.1.tar.gz (536kb)
• nis-utils-1.4.1.tar.bz2 (384kb)

• Test it much more.
• Write installation instructions for the various Linux Distributions
• Write test programs for the nis_* functions, check it with the Solaris versions.
• Test the nis-utils, and compare it with the Solaris versions.
• Look at the NIS+ sources, to make it better and faster.
• Write more test programs for libnisdb.
• Rewrite basic libkey_common code.
• Continue work on rpc.nisd.
• Add YP compat mode for rpc.nisd.
• Translate all messages.
• Write missing man pages.
• keyserv V3 protocol for server and tools.
• Shadow feature for nispasswd and rpc.nispasswdd.
• rpc.nispasswdd: Check, if DES key is from same user.
• rpc.nispasswdd: Implement -g option.
• Write support for putting NIS+ servers into classes like Solaris 2.6 and 7 has. (nisprefadm/nis_cachemgr)
• nisaddent support for the most maps are missing.
• nissetup and the other scripts needs more testing.
• nispopulate is missing.