Re: NIS with local root

From: Systems Administrator (sysadmin@sunet.com.au)
Date: 01/29/03

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To: "Paulius M." <paulius@pit.ktu.lt>, "Nicolas Justin" <nicolas.justin@free.fr>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:36:02 +1100

        Probably the smart thing to do in this case is to only let servers have
    access to NFS (but leave NIS for everyone), and then use Samba to share out
    the directory. It's got a different concept of Access Control, and should
    work better for your application.

        Thanks,

    Tim Nelson
    Systems Administrator
    Sunet Internet
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