[tech] NIS

[David Cake]

>
>The NIS server was something I hoped to write myself - perhaps it's
>time for a Free (TM) alternative.

	Well, Luke is a cool guy who does lots of open source stuff, 
and its his main source of income, so I am in no hurry to replace it.

>The University (TM) is extremely interested in solutions to the
>Mac<->LDAP<->NetInfo problem. The best we've thought of is an OS X server
>box running PAM (it supports it apparently.)

	They don't necessarily need to use NetInfo to do Mac OS X 
logons - the new directory services API gives you plenty of other 
options if you are using post Mac OS X software (ie not current Mac 
OS or Mac OS X Server, but including the next version of OS X Server, 
which is unreleased and based on the Mac OS X codebase (I have a beta 
seed)). I think Luke is the guy who wrote the OS X PAM support, BTW. 
He has also done some stuff to do with OpenLDAP with a Netinfo 
backend, which is another possibility.
	If the University is really interested, they could do worse 
than offer Luke money.
	Cheers
		David