I have a security question for the group. We have ~50 Linux machines that are NIS clients of out server. The idea as you know is that nay of are students van log in to any of the machines and have the same home directory and the same passwd. Ok, now the question. I have been hearing from people about security flaws. Well what about about this. A number of our faculty have set up their personal machines as NIS clients. It makes it easier to get to their class related files. My feeling this is a tremendous security hole, since a first important step in hacking a machine might be logging in to the machine. Making faculty personal machines NIS clients means that any of the 1000 or so students can log in to the faculty machine. Does any one else think that this is a bad idea, or am I confused? -- ======================================================================= Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible -- not to have run away. -- Dag Hammarskjold ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
