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.

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Jens B. Jorgensen
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