From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 13 18:24:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23D315398 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:24:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991214022203.LQSU18773.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@main.wgaf.net> for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:22:03 -0800 Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11xhdC-000072-00; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:24:02 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Merging 2 servers? References: <199912140055.TAA75121@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 13 Dec 1999 21:24:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark"'s message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:55:25 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: <87ln6ydzul.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Crist J. Clark" writes: > Before you even consider NIS or NFS, I think you need to think about > your security model. I would guess every student in the building does > not physically use these machines, but rather there is some LAN the > teachers and students connect too? With NIS/NFS, if one host on the > network is comprimised... Game over. Or if some bright pre-teen brings > in a laptop and plugs it in to the LAN, they gotcha. Want students to > be able to read each others' mail or *gasp* the teachers' mail and > files? (And do you really trust all of those teachers too? ;) Could you elaborate on how a kid with a laptop would be able to compromise the above setup? -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message