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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:
>=20
>> On Mon, 27 May 2013, Tom Rhodes wrote:
>>=20
>>> Modified: =
projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers=
/chapter.xml
>>> =
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D
>>> --- =
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)
>=20
>>> +	      NIS maps</emphasis>.  These users and passwords should
>>> +	    not be propagating to all machines.  Especially if these
>>=20
>> propagating vs. propagated is an interesting question, here.
>=20
> The "should not" is unclear.  Does it mean
>=20
>  * "it is not supposed to happen, but sometimes does anyway"
>  * "it is undesirable from a security standpoint"

You shouldn't do it (it =3D=3D add them to the NIS master password file) =
because it is a security problem if you do.

Warner





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