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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





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