Re: NIS+ Support?

PHP have NIS/YP support and is documented. Don't know about NIS+. -Egon Besuchen Sie Six auf der CeBIT (24.2.-1.3.) in Halle 10, Stand 425, und auf der Hannover-Messe (20.-25.3.) in Halle 14, Stand J50! On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, John Donagher wrote: > Hey folks.. > > I've noticed there doesn't appear to be any NIS+ support in PHP. Has anyone looked > at the feasability of doing something like this? There is NIS support and LDAP support, so it seems > like NIS+ is a reasonable addition. I'd be happy to work on coding it, but I just want to make > sure there isn't any technical problems with doing so that I'm overlooking.. > > Mainly, the issue is that I'm working on finishing up a huge billing system for the > company I work for, and we want to integrate the addition/cancellation/modification of users, who > currently are stored in an NIS+ database. So things would be vastly easier if NIS+ support was > integrated directly into PHP, so I wouldn't have to call external C or Perl programs. The only > hangup I can think of is that the user running Apache&PHP (nobody) would have to have sufficient > credentials to add and modify NIS+ users.. > > Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on this issue?