From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 10 03:30:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA07548 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 03:30:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA07525 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 03:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA04597; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 19:58:12 GMT Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 19:58:12 GMT From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199609101958.TAA04597@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: richard@thehub.com.au, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations on password management. Newsgroups: apana.sa.lists.freebsd-isp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <514d7d$40v@al.imforei.apana.org.au> you wrote: : Hi, Gday! Loved the cafe last time i was up in brizzy (hope i've got the right place) : Im canvassing for opinion on password management & the best way to : go about it. "man yp" talks about YP/NIS stuff.. but i've heard from a security point of view it sucks a little??? I guess it all depends on the scale of the system you want to use as the the system you implement. if you implement something too hacked up it may not scale too well, but if you use something too large then it may just not be the most cost/time/hastle effective way :) Well thats pointed out more questions than answers.. but i'd be interested in the replies to this one. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!