The router replacement that was planned for Saturday is probably going to be delayed until Monday.

     In the meantime, the old SunOS machine is being retired and I am setting up a new NIS master on a Linux machine.  Because of differences in the way Linux and SunOS NIS are implemented, SunOS puts the items that are to be distributed network wide in a different set of files, where Linux propagates everything above a certain UID and GID to the network, I am going to have to change some GID’s, some in the 50’s will become higher numbers so that they will be in the NIS system.  This will require finds and chgrp’s on big file systems so there may be some period where you’re GID is ’57’ instead of ‘rmtonly’ which will become ‘shell’ since access is really not part of the plan nor relevant to the platform GID any longer.

     I will potentially resurrect SunOS some time in the future when I can get an emulator working but we will need to find some alternative method of authentication as I am going to start allowing 16 character usernames, longer passwords, and new stronger encryption, as well as yppasswd on the client machines so you can change your password yourself.