[CentOS] Setting up NIS on Centos 8

2020-12-06 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey Y'all, I found this: https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_8&p=nis&f=1 I've been told in the past that NIS should not be used because of some supposed security issues. Can someone site any authoritative documentation concerning the security issues extant in NIS? My plan is t

Re: [CentOS] Setting up NIS on Centos 8

2020-12-06 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 06/12/2020 à 16:35, Mark LaPierre a écrit : > > I've been told in the past that NIS should not be used because of some > supposed > security issues. > > Can someone site any authoritative documentation concerning the security > issues > extant in NIS? > > My plan is to set up NIS and NFS on

Re: [CentOS] Setting up NIS on Centos 8

2020-12-06 Thread Pete Biggs
> > I found this: > > https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_8&p=nis&f=1 > > I've been told in the past that NIS should not be used because of some > supposed security issues. > > Can someone site any authoritative documentation concerning the security > issues extant in NIS? There'

Re: [CentOS] Setting up NIS on Centos 8

2020-12-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/6/20 8:17 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: The main problem with NIS is that logins and passwords circulate in clear-text over the network. That's not quite it.  Passwords aren't sent over the network at all when a service or system processes a password in a NIS environment.  Under NIS, membe

[CentOS] /dev/mapper/cl-root filesystem corrupted?

2020-12-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
A client's (truly ancient) file server running CentOS 7 suddenly started misbehaving, and I believe the ext4 filesystem on /dev/mapper/cl-root may be corrupted. A reboot fails with a file system check and drops me into maintenance mode. I tried booting from a live C7 DVD and as root running e2fsck.

Re: [CentOS] /dev/mapper/cl-root filesystem corrupted?

2020-12-06 Thread Anthony K
On 7/12/20 12:20 pm, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: A client's (truly ancient) file server running CentOS 7 suddenly started misbehaving, and I believe the ext4 filesystem on /dev/mapper/cl-root may be corrupted. A reboot fails with a file system check and drops me into maintenance mode

Re: [CentOS] ntpdate past CentOS 7

2020-12-06 Thread Thomas Stephen Lee
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:47 AM Jerry Geis wrote: > So ntpdate is no longer present past CentOS 7. > > Many times people want "internal" NTP servers - not opening firewalls to > allow external pool.ntp.org kind of stuff. > > ntpdate was "nice" in that I could just run once a day as "ntpdate name"

Re: [CentOS] /dev/mapper/cl-root filesystem corrupted?

2020-12-06 Thread Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
On Mon, 2020-12-07 at 15:43 +1100, Anthony K wrote: > On 7/12/20 12:20 pm, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote: > > A client's (truly ancient) file server running CentOS 7 suddenly > > started misbehaving, and I believe the ext4 filesystem on > > /dev/mapper/cl-root may be corrupted. A reboot f