RE: Problem with NIS

2003-08-14 Thread Syed Ali
turned off iptables, and rebooted, but the result is the same... Thank you -Original Message- From: Ben Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:37 PM To: RHML Subject: Re: Problem with NIS Do you run RH's firewall? I did and the default iptables

RE: Problem with NIS

2003-08-14 Thread santosh kumar
: Problem with NIS Iptables is on with no firewall: # iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source

Problem with NIS

2003-08-07 Thread Syed Ali
Hello, On RedHat 8.0, NIS clients do not bind to the NIS server when the system boots. The NIS server is running Solaris 7. I have to log in as root on the RH 8.0 clients and run /etc/init.d/ypbind start in order to get the binding to work. When the system is booting, the "Listening for a NIS

Re: Problem with NIS

2003-08-07 Thread Ben Hall
Do you run RH's firewall? I did and the default iptables seems to interfere with our NIS server. (I can't seem to find what port NIS normally works on, or I'd have added the rule already.) Maybe try disabling iptables and see if NIS starts up okay then... Ben On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 16:06, Syed

Re: Problem with NIS

2003-08-06 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Syed Ali wrote: > > > Hello, > > On RedHat 8.0, NIS clients do not bind to the NIS server when the system boots. > The NIS server is running Solaris 7. > > I have to log in as root on the RH 8.0 clients and run /etc/init.d/ypbind start in > order to get the binding to wor

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-30 Thread Avrahami David
Title: problem with NIS Hi, I think patching su command with chattr is a shortcut fixing this specific problem. Thanks you all.   David -Original Message-From: Jim Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:03 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: R

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-30 Thread Jim Bowen
Title: problem with NIS You shouldn't generally need root access except for new s/w installations or serious system reconfiguration.   If you have a user for the db software who owns all the config files involved, and the directories in which the db lives, then that user (not

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
NFS uses a trust-based security model. It's logically incompatible with hosts that you don't "trust". If your remote hosts must allow users you don't trust to access the root account, then don't use NFS. On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 08:56, Avrahami David wrote: > Right but some of them need root acce

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Avrahami David
Title: problem with NIS Right but some of them need root access for some reasons such local database installation -Original Message-From: Jim Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 17:27 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: problem with NIS

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Matthews, John
Title: problem with NIS This is actually a problem with NFS.   I used to be under the assumption it was a NIS problem too.    One solution is to restrict the NFS exports to machines you can trust, and then restrict root on them.  This is of course not the best solution, but it would give

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Jim Bowen
Title: problem with NIS Easy, don't allow them root access.   -Original Message- From: Avrahami David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 July 2002 15:24 To: 'redhat-list' Subject: problem with NIS   Hi, The problem is when the user login as root in his

problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Avrahami David
Title: problem with NIS Hi, The problem is when the user login as root in his machine he get access to any other NIS user home directory he wants to by  "su - " without typing any password. I know that it's a big hole in security caused by NIS but I don't know how to f