From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 22 13:23:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20833 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20817 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:23:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22465; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:22:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jane Frodo cc: jegelhof@cloud9.net, dhw@whistle.com, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Subject: Re: NIS: The saga continues... In-Reply-To: <19980921215838.1744.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Jane Frodo wrote: > > OK Everyone: that was it! The star in the "magic cookie" > was what was locking everyone out. > > Just a side note: everyone always refers newbies to > Managing NIS & NFS by the O'Reilly folks, and I > normally swear by them: but they are adamant about > that star! > > *IS* there a security risk of an account loggin in as "+" > with no password? The + cookie is *magic*, getpwent() will interpret it as appropriate. It won't get interpreted as a real user entry. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message