Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:18:45 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Damien Tougas <damien@carroll.com> Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script Message-ID: <200009212318.e8LNIla08551@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:10:57 EDT." <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com>
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In message <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com>, Damien Tougas writes: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:09:47PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > >It's not a NIS bug, it's operator error. Not having local entries > >for root and wheel is just asking for trouble. > > I would disagree with you there. We do not want to have root password > files on hundreds of thin client workstations, if we have to change > the root password for those workstations, we want to change it once. > If the computer boots without network services, we don't care, because > it dosen't have anything of value on it. When the network comes back > up, just reboot it, these things are designed to be 'dumb'. Have you considered Kerberos? Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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