[1464] in bugtraq
Re: Obtaining NIS domainname from Gatorbox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Horsfall)
Thu Apr 13 17:14:58 1995
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:41:11 +1000 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@esi.com.au>
To: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <199504121952.PAA11310@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
On Wed, 12 Apr 1995, der Mouse wrote:
> > Maybe a good reason to join the crowd and not run NIS?
>
> I wish. It's clear to me that NIS is a big problem. But what else is
> out there? We have a definite need to share passwd databases across
> many machines, from multiple vendors, none of which we have source code
> to. How close to a solution can we get?
A wild idea, straight off the top of my head: what about using the DNS
mechanisms? Apologies if this has been suggested and flamed before...
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