Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:10:00PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The behavior with an asterisk instead of an X is pretty worrisome, however, and is not strictly Ubuntu's fault. Security of a server should not rely on the good will and competence of

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:32:50AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: RA Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RA Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu was only given permissions of the user doing the login - not root - but we could login with any valid user

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:32:50AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: RA Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu was only given permissions of the user

NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-18 Thread RA Cohen
I've read most of what is out there on NIS - Linux interoperability. Unfortunately, nothing explains what we encountered on a FreeBSD 6.2 machine running NFS and NIS: 1. FreeBSD clients work as advertised, they interpret the password maps correctly; we export the server's /usr/home filesystem

NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-18 Thread RA Cohen
I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu was only given permissions of the user doing the login - not root - but we could login with any valid user apparently FreeBSD thought it was presented