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Re: NIS scheme



At 11:21 AM 8/30/00 +0200, Stig Venås wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 07:24:13PM +1000, Luke Howard wrote:
>> 
>> >I just took a quick look at the NIS schema.  It appears that
>> >only one routine needs to be implemented, a validator for
>> >syntax 1.3.6.1.1.1.0.0 (net group triple).  No normalizer
>> >is needed as no matching rules act upon values of this
>> >syntax.
>> 
>> And bootParameterSyntax, yes? This really needs to be done,
>> and I really should be doing it. :-) I'll see what I can
>> rustle up this weekend.
>
>Looks like you didn't get the time to do it, at least I can't
>find it in 2.0-gamma. Is anyone working on this? I might have
>a go myself, I've never looked at this before though, so it
>might be more than I can handle.

I added cheap NIS syntax validators to 2.X-devel (actually,
I just reused printableStringValidator).  Please test.
These should be replaced with real syntax validators by
some one....