Re: Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-18 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On 18 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I make a living off Open Groups DCE (used to be OSF), and > billing it as an NIS replacement is akin to comparing a pocketknife > to a thermonuclear device. It would be arguably more accurate to say > DCE is nothing like NIS. Say what yo

Re: Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I make a living off Open Groups DCE (used to be OSF), and billing it as an NIS replacement is akin to comparing a pocketknife to a thermonuclear device. It would be arguably more accurate to say DCE is nothing like NIS. manoj DCE/Threads consultant -- The amount of flak

Re: Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-17 Thread Mark Plaksin
> "RLS" == Richard L Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RLS> There's DCE, Distributed Computing Environment, from OSF. It is a RLS> very powerful system (so I've read) for tying multi-platform networks RLS> together under one authentication service. Our varsity's about to RLS> dive in and

Re: Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-17 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > Hi... > > Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out > there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users > can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a > mangled passwd field)

Re: Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Karl Ferguson wrote: > > Hi... > > Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out > there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users > can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a > mangled passwd field) - is there any way

Other remote passwd servers?

1997-05-15 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi... Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a mangled passwd field) - is there any way to stop that? (Hence my question fo