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- From: brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Problem with securenets patch 100482-02
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.181023@siisun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 16:10:23 GMT
- References: <&ba1Hjv539@atlantis.psu.edu> <STEINAR.HAUG.92Aug22151428@delab.sintef.no> <janet.714722734@dunnart> <1992Aug25.105613.12933@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>
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- In article <1992Aug25.105613.12933@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>, malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Malte Uhl) writes:
- |>
- |> We haven't installed the patch yet. Does anyone out there have experience
- |> with it in a heterogenious environment ( ultrix 4.x, aix 3.2, NextOS )?
- |> We have a sun as NIS master, one NeXT and several suns as NIS slaves.
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- As long as all the servers are protected (meaning, for now, all Sun's)
- then you'll have no problems. Otherwise, any crackers will be able to
- capture your password file from the non-protected server. Which is
- the case right now anyway.
-
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- Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
- SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2211
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