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[ILUG] Authentication ideas

[ILUG] Authentication ideas

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Thu Jan 22 00:12:41 GMT 2004


On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Paul O'Malley wrote:

> End Theory.

Great theory, but $user can just run foo2.

(and even if you did modify ypcat, $user can go get a ypcat from some 
other system or net. or if you have machines you dont directly 
control, you either must prevent them from talking to your NIS 
server or just accept they have your nis maps.)

> Paul

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