libc 4/5 with traditional NIS or NYS ?
libc4/5, use with NIS/NYS
NIS/NYS, use with libc4/5The choice between "traditional NIS" or the NIS code in the NYS library
is a choice between laziness and maturity vs. flexibility and love of
adventure.The "traditional NIS" code is in the standard C library and has been
around longer and sometimes suffers from its age and slight
inflexibility.The NIS code in the NYS library requires you to recompile the libc
library to include the NYS code into it (or maybe you can
get a precompiled version of libc from someone who has already done it).Another difference is that the traditional NIS code has some support
for NIS Netgroups, which the NYS code doesn't. On the other hand
the NYS code allows you to handle Shadow Passwords in a transparent
way. The "traditonal NIS" code doesn't support Shadow Passwords over NIS.