Re: argh, NIS!

[Dominik Kubla <kubla@netz.klinik.uni-mainz.de>]

> I thought that using broadcasting to find ypserver was considered
> a security hazard, and it was better to explicitly specify the
> server location?  (ie, that this is what NIS+, and hence NYS was
> going to require)?

Well, that can be done with Linux' NIS implementation as well, just put

	server nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

into /etc/yp.conf, that's all.

Dominik
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