[4408] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Authentication Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sun Sep 15 22:19:08 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: clameter@waterf.org (Christoph Lameter)
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 17:34:18 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960915071836.8323B-100000@waterf.org> from "Christoph Lameter" at Sep 15, 96 07:19:30 am
> 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.
Time to fetch goodies. If Miquel has managed to beat all the vendors on securing
NIS then I'm impressed. Somehow Im also not suprised. Now does Miquel's stuff
work with glibc ?
Alan
