svn commit: r41757 - projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers

[Warner Losh]

On May 28, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Warren Block wrote:

> On Tue, 28 May 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 27 May 2013, Tom Rhodes wrote:
>> 
>>> Modified: projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers/chapter.xml
>>> ==============================================================================
>>> --- projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers/chapter.xml Mon May 27 20:33:31 2013	(r41756)
>>> +++ projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-servers/chapter.xml Mon May 27 20:48:10 2013	(r41757)
> 
>>> +	      NIS maps</emphasis>.  These users and passwords should
>>> +	    not be propagating to all machines.  Especially if these
>> 
>> propagating vs. propagated is an interesting question, here.
> 
> The "should not" is unclear.  Does it mean
> 
>  * "it is not supposed to happen, but sometimes does anyway"
>  * "it is undesirable from a security standpoint"

You shouldn't do it (it == add them to the NIS master password file) because it is a security problem if you do.

Warner