[CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS
John Hodrien
J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.ukThu Oct 6 08:38:45 UTC 2011
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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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