Re: tlug: NFS question

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Rex Walters wrote:

> >>>>> Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes:  (on 15 Oct 98)
> 
> > Is there any reason that you don't like to use NIS?  (Just
> > curious, because I thought that is the way to go in the
> > outlined setup.)
> 
> It's a pretty big security hole in general, and I just despised it when
> SunOS used to force you to use it for hostname resolution (you had to
> either replace shared libraries or do it the Sun way of first querying
> NIS and only going to DNS if the name wasn't found).  

Linux does this, too, btw.  from /etc/nsswitch.conf:

hosts:      files nisplus nis dns


Solaris/X86 gives you the choice of 'NIS, NIS+, or Other' in the
installation.  You have to manually hack /etc/nsswitch.conf to use DNS. 


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