[CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS
John Hodrien
J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk
Thu Oct 6 08:38:45 UTC 2011
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Steve Rikli wrote:
> Why? I'll grant NIS is insecure at best for login auth, and should not
> be used for that purpose (at least not outside the lab).
>
> But for other purposes e.g. automount maps, NIS is simple and easy and
> still functional.
>
> I'll also readily agree I wouldn't want NIS on internet-facing systems,
> but for things like automount maps on the internal corporate LAN, is
> it really a catastropic problem?
The problem you get is when you compare it with LDAP.
jh
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