Re: Other remote passwd servers?
Karl Ferguson wrote:
>
> Hi...
>
> Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out
> there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users
> can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a
> mangled passwd field) - is there any way to stop that? (Hence my question
> for other NIS-like things).
>
> Regards
>
> Karl
NIS+ resolves this security hole. Hopefully someone's working on
a Linux version. Solaris has it by default.
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