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- From: prl@iis.ethz.ch (Peter Lamb)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun
- Subject: Re: C2 security and passwords
- Keywords: passwd,c2conv
- Message-ID: <prl.683338578@iis>
- Date: 28 Aug 91 00:16:18 GMT
- References: <1991Aug27.185853.5493@uceng.UC.EDU>
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
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- montjoy@thor.ece.uc.edu (Robert Montjoy) writes:
-
- >Note YP users!!! If you are running YP your passwd.adjucnt files will
- > not be protected from causal users. Anyone can just
- > "ypcat" the map.. This issue was discussed at length
- > in alt.security(about 4 weeks ago)
-
- Not quite true. Only all the people on the net who can become
- root can `ypcat' the map. Of course, for the normal NIS passwd map this
- restriction doesn't apply. I have engaged in a practical demonstration of
- this effect (with the consent of the other sysadmin). I copied a
- (dummy) passwd.adjunct file from a machine in the US to my workstation
- in Switzerland.
- --
- Peter Lamb (prl@iis.ethz.ch)
- Integrated Systems Laboratory
- ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zurich
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