Re: overcome NIS

From: Loren A. Linden Levy (lindenle_at_uiuc.edu)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:43:23 GMT

I think NIS is one giant hole. Anyone sniffing on the network can
ypcat the NIS maps and then start cracking on them.

On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:19:56 +0100
Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.security Huge <huge@ukmisc.org.uk>:
> > "ohovus_indus@yahoo.com" <ohovus_indus@yahoo.com> writes:
> >>Hi gurus,
> >>
> >>I could not find any hole in NIS after much thought,
>
> > Perhaps you should do your own homework?
>
> Or at least take the time to post the complete question? ;-)
> 

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