[ILUG] Authentication ideas

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Niall O Broin wrote:

> No, NIS is not as secure as a very secure thing, but I wasn't
> advocating using it in on the internet. Stephane's hosts are all
> behind firewalls. If a black hat is in a situation where he can
> snoop NIS traffic, they have other problems.

yep.. if you're net is already considered 'secure' (or at least it 
being breached would give you other problems anyway) then NIS is 
simple and does the job.

regards,
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