Re: unhappy about overloading finger

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From: David Lemson
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 05:45

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nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:

>Did Sun provide patches for my Ultrix machines, my Dynix boxes, and my
>stupid NeXT machines? How about patches to the bugs that probably
>exist in NeXT's netinfo? And how about patches to the other devious
>ways people can think to coerce password files out of YP?

If you implement the Trusted_Networks: property in your root domain,
no one outside of networks that you specify will be able to connect
to your netinfo server and steal your maps.
-- 
David Lemson                                                 (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant  / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu                 UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson 
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From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: unhappy about overloading finger
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