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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin
- From: flisakow@cae.wisc.edu (Shawn Flisakowski)
- Subject: Group File Tools
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
- Date: 29 Mar 93 17:19:55 CST
- Message-ID: <1993Mar29.171955.17970@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- I have implemented a small client/server interface to the group file.
- It allows normal users to create groups and add users to groups using
- the password field in the group file to provide the necessary security.
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- I feel a reasonably easy way to share files by using groups actually
- improves system security since it is not necessary for users to share
- passwords. This program was implemented out of laziness though, we
- were previously adding groups by hand, yick.
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- I wrote it for HPUX and SunOs boxes to connect up to a SunOs NIS server.
- I suspect the client program would compile on nearly any unix box, the
- server program assumes it is running under inetd.
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- It's not that big of a program, but I personally like the command line
- interface. It's available for anon ftp from
- doug.cae.wisc.edu (144.92.12.177) packaged as grp.tar
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- Shawn Flisakowski A problem which cannot
- flisakow@cae.wisc.edu be reproduced is no
- Unix System Programmer longer a problem.
- CAE - Computer Aided Engineering
- University of Wisconsin - Madison
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