Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:16:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Subject: Re: svn commit: r41757 - projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers Message-ID: <BD6C2C8F-CFA3-4463-B9CF-614DEF51224B@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305281826090.49386@wonkity.com> References: <201305272048.r4RKmBFF051879@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1305281505160.9389@multics.mit.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305281826090.49386@wonkity.com>
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On May 28, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 May 2013, Tom Rhodes wrote: >> >>> Modified: projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers/chapter.xml >>> ============================================================================== >>> --- projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers/chapter.xml Mon May 27 20:33:31 2013 (r41756) >>> +++ projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers/chapter.xml Mon May 27 20:48:10 2013 (r41757) > >>> + NIS maps</emphasis>. These users and passwords should >>> + not be propagating to all machines. Especially if these >> >> propagating vs. propagated is an interesting question, here. > > The "should not" is unclear. Does it mean > > * "it is not supposed to happen, but sometimes does anyway" > * "it is undesirable from a security standpoint" You shouldn't do it (it == add them to the NIS master password file) because it is a security problem if you do. Warnerhome | help
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