From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 1 18:08:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA25950 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 18:08:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from obiwan.aceonline.com.au (obiwan.aceonline.com.au [203.103.90.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA25938 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 18:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.aceonline.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA12103; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:59:19 +0800 (WST) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:59:18 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: Ernie Elu cc: Justen Stepka , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS In-Reply-To: <199704020142.LAA06116@spooky.eis.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ... | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)