Citando Jamie Heilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have 3 machines, A, B and C. Machine A is my gateway,B my NIS, > mail and SMB server and machine C is my WorkStation. My doubt is if > is secure to have a NIS client on machine A or simple re-direct my > connections to machine B? Unless there's something you've not told us there's no reason to have A provide your NIS service, so why even consider it? If you did put NIS on machine A, for whatever reason, you would need to ensure hosts external to your local network couldn't access the NIS service, which could be done using the usual packet filtering techniques. In general NIS should never be exposed to untrusted access because its far too vulnerable to attack. I say this assuming A, B, C are all on a single local network, if machine B is external to the network machine C is on, well then, its a different story, and perhaps NIS isn't the best tool for the job. (IMO, NIS is almost never the best tool in homogenous linux environments.) -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ "Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass." -Frank Zappa
One last thing: What links do you sugest to read about this matter (NIS) and what better tools exist for this kind of job? Thanks for everything. Ricardo Sousa ______________________________________________ O email preferido dos portugueses agora também é o Acesso Gratuito à Internet que dá prémios! Saiba mais: http://concurso.portugalmail.pt
