From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Nov 14 17:06:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA28710 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:06:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA28703 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:06:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA16903 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:04:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA26071 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:04:52 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Stupid question no 10101 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 20:04:51 -0500 Message-ID: <26068.848019891@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is probably a stupid question, but I'll ask anyhow. If you're an ISP, and need to share password info between machines, but not keep identical info on the machines, how do you handle it? NIS (aka YP) isn't the answer as it's about as insecure as a bank run out of plastic shopping bags. About the only solution I have right now is spending several days coding a password exchange system that'll sync the databases between machines, and handle add/del users, etc, but I'd rather try and find a less labour-intensive way of doing it ... Thanks, Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info