Re: NIS and shadow all over the place

2000-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:00:09PM +, Joseph Heenan wrote: > I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly for me. > ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as root, but not when run > as a normal user. For lack of a better suggestion, perhaps try > upgrading to the potato nis pa

Re: NIS and shadow all over the place

2000-01-09 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 02:46:34AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:00:09PM +, Joseph Heenan wrote: > > > I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly for me. > > ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as root, but not when run > > as a normal user. Fo

Re: NIS and shadow all over the place

2000-01-09 Thread Brian May
> "Joseph" == Joseph Heenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've installed NIS, but I can't prevent the shadow file of >> being public now:( Anybody on my machine can do "ypcat >> shadow.byname" and start cracking those passwords. I thought >> the hole point of shadow was to let

Re: NIS and shadow all over the place

2000-01-08 Thread Joseph Heenan
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in return of installing Debian GNU/Linux I got my father's old 486, > so now I've this problem connecting my machines:) > > I've installed NIS, but I can't prevent the shadow file of being > public now:( Anybody

NIS and shadow all over the place

2000-01-08 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai, in return of installing Debian GNU/Linux I got my father's old 486, so now I've this problem connecting my machines:) I've installed NIS, but I can't prevent the shadow file of being public now:( Anybody on my machine can do "ypcat shadow.byname" and start cracking those passwords. I thought