Posted by fabs on 18:19:00 08-01-2001
does anybody here have any experience with NIS and NFS? It sounds like a very cool thing to me and I'd wanna try to set up an nis server myself, the only thing is, I read somewhere that NIS is a huge security issue. Is that true? Is NIS insecure?
fabs
Posted by jgrant on 16:32:00 08-02-2001
What is NIS?
Posted by fabs on 18:28:00 08-02-2001
Alright, today my dad bought me a book called "Linux Network Administrator's guide". It's that brown O-reilly book with the cowboy on the cover
Anyway, it covers a lot of NIS and NFS. To answer zour q--> NIS is the Network Information System. You use it so that a lot of client-machines use the same /etc/passwd, /etc/group etc. That's pretty handy because it makes the network transparent. NFS is the network-file-system. It makes it possible to mount remote partitions just like they were local ones.
fabs
Posted by Huxly on 15:00:00 08-15-2001
A cheap way to get lots of infomation
about everything Linux is to visit
the Linux Documentation Project site
I think it's http://www.linuxdoc.org
Just about everything is there and free.
NFS is for moving files between computers
using an Ethernet connection. You can
do the same thing with ftp only NFS is
easier to use. It's not hard to set up.
I don't know anything about security.
Posted by KaGez on 03:03:00 08-26-2001
hm ... it isn't hard to set up ? I never really got it to run ... never really tried though
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