Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 10:55:04 +0800 From: John Summerfield <summer@OS2.ami.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi Server Passwords Message-ID: <200011090252.eA92qOZ25893@emu.os2.ami.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2000 18:40:54 PST." <20001108184053.H5112@fw.wintelcom.net>
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bright@wintelcom.net said: > NIS is a poor choice for security, afaik it passes passwords via > plaintext. Doesn't matter whether the password is encrypted or not; if a snooper can see it's a password and whose it is, they can use what they have. To be sure, encrypted isn't quite so simple, but it's still not hard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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