From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 5 14:36:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9747E37B406 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:36:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GEH00G01811H9@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.244]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GEH0017480V1Z@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 14:36:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 14:35:43 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: Dumb Question PDC In-reply-to: To: 'Lobanov' Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: yura@spf1.us4.outblaze.com > [mailto:yura@spf1.us4.outblaze.com]On Behalf Of Lobanov > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:14 PM > To: Drew Tomlinson > Cc: 'Linh Pham'; Dave Rideout; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Dumb Question PDC > > > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > Or if you just need a centralized account repository for > FreeBSD, look at > > NIS. There's a section in the Handbook regarding it. > > > > Drew > > And what's your opinion about NIS from security viewpoint? As > for me I'd > prefer smth. more reliable. I don't have one as I know nothing about the security issues. I just passed along information I remembered reading in the Handbook. [snip] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message