Re: Non-existent user able to log in??? hacked????
On Tue, 18 May 2004, elijah wright wrote:
> Arnaud, if i remember correctly, there's a special directory you can go to
> and type 'make' - you get a set of rebuilt NIS databases as a result.
Just run
/usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m
on the NIS master server, this ought to refresh all NIS maps. If you can,
get rid of NIS, it is a security nightmare (I know, I have to run it for
backward compatibility reasons). If you need something like NIS, use LDAP,
it is somewhat easier to secure.
Bye
Giacomo
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