From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 21 16:20:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45BD337B424 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id QAA05534; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:20:04 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda05528; Thu Sep 21 16:19:46 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA12572; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:19:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdS12559; Thu Sep 21 16:18:47 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e8LNIla08551; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009212318.e8LNIla08551@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdLx8547; Thu Sep 21 23:18:45 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: Damien Tougas Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:10:57 EDT." <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:18:45 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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