6 Oct
2011
6 Oct
'11
10:38 a.m.
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