NIS is very unsecure by nature, I would never suggest it be on a firewall. A firewall is constantly exposed to the hostile internet. If someone were to root the box, they would have passwords/etc for your entire network. Setting up a seperate system would increase security greatly.
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 20:03, Thomas Cook wrote: > I have a small firewall/gateway/dhcp server that serves my network (7-10 > boxes). I usually try to keep from running anything on the box save the > dhcp server and ssh to prevent security holes and keep patching infrequent. > > When I first started I had only 3 boxes on the network, but things have > grown, and I would like to install an NIS server to keep user accounts and > the like in sync. My first thought was to add the NIS Server to the > firewall as it logically has access to all the servers behind it. > > Would this be an undue security risk? Would it be better to place another > server just inside the network for this task? The network is small and has > few users so bandwidth and load are not an issue. > > -Tom > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Sean McAvoy Network Analyst Megawheels Technologies Inc. Phone: 416.360.8211 Fax: 416.360.1403 Cell: 416.616.6599 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
