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 to stop that? (Hence my question > for other NIS-like things). > > Regards > > Karl
NIS+ resolves this security hole. Hopefully someone's working on a Linux version. Solaris has it by default. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .