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Re: [seul-edu] Alternatives to NIS



I know nobody can get physical access to plug in to the network cables because the whole network is enclosed in my classroom. Only the cleaning people and I have a key. There's nothing on any of the machines that anybody would want anyway.
    This NIS stuff is frustrating. I am trying to figure out how to compile the kernel. When I go through all the make config stuff and get to the part where you actually compile, I then get a message that gcc is not found. Anybody know what rpm it's part of on the Redhat 6 or 7 CD's?
Dave Prentice
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hedemark <hedemark@bops.com>
To: 'seul-edu@seul.org' <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: [seul-edu] Alternatives to NIS

Ah but how can you be sure you are the only one with root access to a *NIX box?  How do you know someone didn't bring in a laptop and simply plug it into an active port?
 
As others have pointed out, perhaps the problem is more with NFS than NIS.  Right now I am up to my eyeballs in NIS+ stuff and really am ready to throw it out the window.  This is something that NT does waaaaay better than UNIX.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Prentice [mailto:dprentice@uno.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 7:41 PM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] Alternatives to NIS

Chris,
Since I am the only one with root access to any of the machines (everybody else is a student), it sounds like NIS should be OK. Right?
    Also, before setting up NIS I am trying to move the students' home directories to a central hard drive located on the server. The drive is set in the server's /etc/exports as rw for all users via NFS. Other machines see it just fine and can read from it. However, they won't write to it. When I create a username on the server and then go to another machine where I created the same username and password with the NFS directory as its home directory, I keep getting the message that it is a read-only directory. Do I change something with chmod, or what?
Thanks,
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org
http://www.prenticenet.com/home/dprentice
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hedemark <hedemark@bops.com>
To: 'seul-edu@seul.org' <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Monday, October 23, 2000 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: [seul-edu] Alternatives to NIS

We're planning on going to NDS most likely.  We're on NIS+ now with NIS backward compatibility enabled.
 
MAJOR security hole - anyone with any UNIX machine that has root access to that machine can become any NIS user without the need for a password.  This is one of the many reasons that I hate NIS.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Prentice [mailto:dprentice@uno.edu]
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 10:28 PM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: [seul-edu] Alternatives to NIS

Anybody,
    A while back I seem to remember someone saying NIS is "evil." Since my classroom network is now stable enough to begin to expand from the present 7 machines, I want to centralize access and  passwords. What alternatives are there to NIS, or should I just go with it? 
Thanks,
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com