[tech] Getting mooneye to be a NIS slave

[David Luyer]

> > But other people can look into our network there and maybe get passwd crypts?
> 
> Assuming it's set up sanely (yes I know) then nobody outside of that network
> will be able to get any data from the server. If they are on that network, 
> then they can just get the raw passwords as they fly by.

Not for SSH.

The NIS possibility to steal raw crypts is a problem cokeauth solved years
ago which was exactly the reason it was developed :-)  However UCC lacked
people with the motivation to hack successive systems to support it.

David.
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