[wellylug] Linux Client-Server System

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jedolinux.com
Tue Nov 22 08:35:54 NZDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 06:15 +1300, Andrej wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:32, Jethro Carr wrote:
> Hi Jethro,
> 
> What you want is NIS/NIS+ ... 
> 
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html
> 
> As far as the wireless goes - make sure you're using WPA,
> NIS is no more secure than ethernet itself :)

thanks Andrej.

I've found something called Kerberos which appears to be the same sort
of thing, but more secure. I really want the system to be secure, which
NIS does not appear to be.

I'll have a play around and see how I go.


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Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


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