[SunHELP] NIS security question...

[Adrian.Florea at alcatel.ro]

Hi,

I think that if you have on the client boxes nsswitch.conf with files as
source for passwd then all users in /etc/passwd (shadow) will login well.

You can specify a nis source for aliases to use with mail server.

Adrian FLOREA

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Matt Goebel wrote:

> Hello,
>
>   I'm setting up a nis/nfs server, and a couple of clients.  My question
> is how do I configure the server to recognize the users for purposes
> of recieving email, but not allow them to login.  I only want the users
> to be able to log into the clients.
>   I've been looking at using the compat option in nsswitch.conf for
> passwd and group.  If I'm reading the docs correctly then I will have
> to keep entries for each user in the nis files, and the various /etc
> files, with the /etc/passwd entry for each user having /dev/null for
> the shell?
>   This is with Solaris 8 on all of the boxes.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Matt
>
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