Michel Talon wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > NIS, which stands for Network Information Services, was developed > by Sun Microsystems to centralize administration of UNIX > (originally SunOS) systems. It has now essentially become an > industry standard; all major UNIX like systems (Solaris, HP-UX, > AIX(R), Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc) support NIS. > > > I work i am in a mostly Linux shop managed by NIS. However my machines > are under FreeBSD and i have no problem getting the NIS info. The only > gotcha is that, under Linux you have 2 files for passwds /etc/passwd > and /etc/shadow, while under FreeBSD you have just one > /etc/master.passwd. So you need to run NIS in compatibility mode on the > Linux server, so that passwd and shadow are "concatenated". Securitywise > it is the same since in any case the shadow information flows on the > wire, ready to be captured by a scannner. > >
Yes, but running the NIS server in UNSECURE=true mode also allows local users on NIS workstations to access the password hashes. It is essentially the same as running a local machine with world read access to master.passwd. Your only defense then would be very strong passwords that would not be breakable by something like i.e. jack the ripper. I bet most people would prefer not to rely on this... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
