Re: perl or libc6 bug?: getpwnam('root') in NIS environment
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 07:38:33PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >Design problem with NIS- there's no
> >way for the NIS server to know if a client is privileged to see the
> >encrypted password or not
>
> There is. If the request comes from a priviliged port (<1024) it must
> have been a root process that did the request. That way the NIS
> server can see if a process is priviliged.
My apologies, I didn't remember that. (Of course, this just means something
*else* at work is broken... <gnash>).
SRH
--
Steve Haslam, Validation Engineer, ARM Ltd, Cambridge UK +44-1223-400677
steve.haslam@arm.com steve@arise.demon.co.uk araqnid@debian.org
www.arise.demon.co.uk 8410 63C6 5821 1A2E BB26 E98F 8F16 B533 AF99 D43A
A4 5D 30 2C EE CB 41 24 A7 9E DF E3 74 E8 2E 5B @ http://wwwkeys.pgp.net/
Reply to: