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3.3. NIS or NIS+ ?NIS vs. NIS+

The choice between NIS and NIS+ is easy - use NIS if you don't have to use NIS+ or have severe security needs. NIS+ is _much_ more problematic to administer (it's pretty easy to handle on the client side, but the server side is horrible). Another problem is that the support for NIS+ under FreeBSD is still under developement, and is not ready for Alpha testing yet.


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