Re: NIS/NFS question

From: Carl Reynolds (redhat-list_at_hyperbole-software.com)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:51:25 -0500
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    Wayne Pinette wrote:

    >the server. Although my nis server only trusts a small list of
    >ip addresses, it's trust is still only based on ip. Is there a way to
    >add some sort of certificate trust to nis or some other mechanism to
    >check against
    >before nis will trust a machine on it network other than just ip?
    >
    >Wayner
    >
    >
    >
    How about not allowing anyone to login as root from ssh? If someone
    truly has root privileges on a machine, they can ssh to their personal
    account and then su - to become root when they need to.

    Carl. 

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