NIS or NIS+ ?

NIS vs. NIS+The choice between NIS and NIS+ is easy - use NIS+ only if you 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.