Eh ... No, I am not planning to remove NIS, au contraire, but now that I got your attention ... We have a couple of long standing (2001) NIS-related issues with patches and I am willing to do something about it. Please test: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26486 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31981 Thanks in advance, Pedro.