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- From: fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald)
- Subject: SUMMARY(pt 2/2): DO NOT depend on (OLD)YP to hide passwd.adjunct
- Message-ID: <0=ap_xb@rpi.edu>
- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
- Date: 14 Oct 91 19:20:10 GMT
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- Sun's solution
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- Sun has announced a "new enterprise name service" called "NIS+" which
- will be distributed "as a component of Solaris 2.0" with SunOS 5.0.
- NIS+ reportedly closes the passwd.adjunct map readability security hole
- and has new features. An NIS+ server can operate in "compatibility
- mode" with (OLD) NIS clients.
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- Although NIS+ will be available for sparcs and Intel x86, it will not
- be available for the Sun-3's nor will it be be distributed as a free
- security patch.
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- I do not guarantee that any of this information is accurate or
- current. Sincere thanks to those who contributed.
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- Brian
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- Disclaimer: I do not work for ITS or ECS. These are my opinions.
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