Johnathan Bailes
Do you get better output with a samba share alternative?
I'll try it. Now, users can copy data via rcp to a local disk. The transfer speed is about 10 MB/s.
NIS is insecure and inflexible. Even Sun is going to base its name services on LDAP.
Insecure yes. For internal use (corporate behind firewalls and VPNS and such) with TCPwrappers enabled I have not seen a problem and I have used it for years now.
Anybody can list the content of the passwd map. In my case, "John the Ripper" (package john-*.rpm) decrypted several passwords in less than 2 seconds. In less then 2 days, I had about 75% of all passwords in the NIS domain (less than 100 users) decrypted. This was done to increase the LAN security; users were asked to change their decrypted passwords.
We had the overwhelming reason. The question is do you?
It's not about me. It's about people here who would like to run Linux on their desktops and notebooks to do research in physics but the IT refuses to provide any kind of Linux support. There are Unix and Linux boxes here administered by me and my colleagues but we are too busy doing physics to administer more machines. The only solution is to get the IT involved but they are MS-Windows people. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se