is it the case that nis/nsf cannot be used safely in a hostile (university) shared writeable environment (say using recent vintage sunsOS)? i've heard that you can secure it and i've heard that you can't. -------- perry@imsi.com writes: Opening up NFS or NIS to the net is asking for trouble. ------------------- -- paul pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu / uunet!acsu.buffalo.edu!pjg / pjg@ubvm (ripem public key at keyserver ripem.acsu.buffalo.edu) if the above contains opinions they are mine unless marked otherwise.