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Full Disclosure: NIS Security Hole / Full Access by NIS Client Root

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Angsuman Chakraborty

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Full Disclosure: NIS Security Hole / Full Access by NIS Client Root Posted: May 15, 2007 1:34 PM
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Several years ago I noticed a big issue with NIS security at Sun, which I promptly reported hoping for a patch. Today I found out it is still there. Hopefully a full disclosure will help solve it. In typical NFS-NIS setup, users on NIS client machines login to their NIS accounts (like Windows users login [...]

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