[4407] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Authentication Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christoph Lameter)
Sun Sep 15 22:19:07 1996
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 07:19:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <m0v2EJz-0005FbC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
alan>> The easy way is to use NIS because most if not all Unixes support it. Anything
alan>> else will cause a lot of trouble with some system or another.
alan>>
alan>> NIS is simple and universal.
alan>
alan>And unusable on any system requiring more than joke level security. Radius
alan>is at least vaguely secure. Secure shell and/or kerberos solutions are
alan>relatively strong.
You have no idea about Linux NIS security. Get the latest NIS package from
Miquel. NIS is secure on Linux but certainly a danger on other Unixes.
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