From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 20 03:58:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA26430 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 03:58:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gbdata.com ([207.90.222.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA26420; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 03:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id FAA20861; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 05:56:55 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199611201156.FAA20861@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: Stupid question no 10101 To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 05:56:44 -0600 (CST) Cc: jbh@netpci.com, michael@memra.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <7065.848474532@orion.webspan.net> from Gary Palmer at "Nov 20, 96 02:22:12 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Palmer wrote: --SNIP-- > Makes it kinda stupid to use NIS in a shadowed password environment ... If you are using only FreeBSD machines (like I am here) you can a a little security. Only prived apps can get the passwords. Regular users can only get passwd.byname. > > Gary > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii