Date: 13 Dec 1999 21:24:02 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Merging 2 servers? Message-ID: <87ln6ydzul.fsf@main.wgaf.net> In-Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark"'s message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:55:25 -0500 (EST)" References: <199912140055.TAA75121@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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"Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> writes: > Before you even consider NIS or NFS, I think you need to think about > your security model. I would guess every student in the building does > not physically use these machines, but rather there is some LAN the > teachers and students connect too? With NIS/NFS, if one host on the > network is comprimised... Game over. Or if some bright pre-teen brings > in a laptop and plugs it in to the LAN, they gotcha. Want students to > be able to read each others' mail or *gasp* the teachers' mail and > files? (And do you really trust all of those teachers too? ;) Could you elaborate on how a kid with a laptop would be able to compromise the above setup? -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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