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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Will do TCP/IP for clues" Ranum)
- Subject: Re: Using YP/NIS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.153232.19021@decuac.dec.com>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:32:32 GMT
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- >> we're thinking of using YP/NIS to distribute among other things,
- >> password entries.
-
- If you're using the ULTRIX versions of YP/NIS (or BIND for that
- matter) I suggest you take a look at the shell scripts that handle processing
- the password file. They don't do adequate locking. :-P This has been QARred
- but in the meantime I'd hate to see someone have their password file get
- munged a lot. (It'll only happen in the case of near simultaneous updates,
- but - still...)
-
- mjr.
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