On Tuesday 12 October 2004 22:32, s. keeling wrote: > I'm not so sure about the security concerns. �For one thing, it
The big one I saw (and perhaps it's not a problem anymore?) is that if some remote user can guess the NIS domain name, they can request information from your NIS server - like /etc/passwd. I'd be interested to hear if this is still a problem, or if it's been addressed. WRT being stuck if the primary server goes down, I think I'd be in that boat regardless which authentication method I use - NIS or LDAP (other than stand alone local authentication). Good points though. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
