On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I can't speculate on your security needs, but if it's a safe network, > NIS does a good job. It's security is fine if you don't have really > secure data and limit access to people who are not going to hack it. > The network will be firewalled and connections will only be allowed over VPN but still the decision has been made to nix NIS. If someone wants to hack it, they can do so easily. Therefore I would > not use it in an enviornment where physical or remote access is not > very carefully controlled, or there is data somewhere that needs to > be kept secure. Those are the main reasons for the decision against NIS. If there is something better why settle for less? Perhaps what I'm looking for is just a tried and tested howto that is up to date. That or whatever else people suggest but nothing proprietary. Chaim > > Geoff. > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM > IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 > Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ >
