After dealing with a couple of issues with OpenLDAP, I'd say it beats the piss out of NIS all day long. NIS is ancient and decrepit.
Hard to believe, but certain very well known organizations refuse to get off NIS for critical and secure systems. Peter On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:50 AM, John R. Dennison <j...@gerdesas.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:44:54PM -0700, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > > > Not one you want to hear: ditch NIS. It's known to have a *lot* of > > security holes. At the very least, NIS+. Better would be either RH > > Out of curiousity, can you point me to writeups of known working > exploits against current yp-family versions on CentOS? > > NIS+ is not, the last time I checked, available for Linux; if > my understanding is in error I would very much welcome > correction. > > > > > John > > -- > We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. > > -- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th president of the United States > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Peter Serwe http://truthlightway.blogspot.com/
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