We are running Midas in production on a system of approximately 90 servers and workstations, with over 40,000 users. Future versions will include several other network authorization and authentication protocols, all sharing the same MySQL data store. This software package is suitable for medium-sized Unix networks with between 10,000 and 100,000 users. The NIS server has only been compiled under Solaris, but should be reasonably portable. Only experienced Unix system administrators should attempt to use Midas.
Source is available as a compressed tar file.
It does this by selecting a subset of the rows from the table, and writing them to a temporary file. It then starts your text editor on this file. When you exit the editor, it determines the changes that you have made by comparing the file to an original version, and then does the appropriate inserts, deletes, or updates to the database table. Source is available as a compressed tar file. This version of ntalkd, derived from 4.3 BSD talkd, supports both the old and new talk protocols, under SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.4.