On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, James Graham wrote:

> There are some environments in which running NIS is not desirable (bank
> environments, for example, for security reasons), and I don't know anyone
> who uses netgroups without mandating NIS at the same time.

Not that I am very important, but I use netgroups on my home network and
I've never even considered trying to set up the NIS monster.

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