Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:59:18 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au> Cc: Justen Stepka <raistlin@ecp.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970402095528.12015A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199704020142.LAA06116@spooky.eis.net.au>
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Ernie Elu wrote: > > > > I would personaly run FreeBSD on all the machines because if you want to > > export the shadow stuff it's insecure and your users will be able to see > > the passwd feild. FreeBSD's NIS is like SunOS in that the passwd feild is > > not shown with any ypcat map. > > > > > Thanks for the suggestion, I would love to have all the machines on FreeBSD > but I have to leave the terminal servers running Linux use the transparent > proxy feature of the Linux kernel to save users having to set the proxy > server in their browser. > > Despite lots of prodding, I found that only 40% of users were setting proxies > and at $0.19c per MB inbound traffic in Australia, proxies are a must. *grin* Don't ya just LOVE Monopolies? :) Check out IPFilter, it has a transparent proxying feature just like Linux. Our terminal servers / user machines all run Linux, and all the rest (Proxy, gateway, fileserver) run FreeBSD. -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... <adrian@psinet.net.au> | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)
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