On 10/1/21 12:54 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 12:42, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>>>> The places I have seen it still being used are in Universities run by >>>>> people who learned sysadmin in the 1990's and early 2000's. It is a >>>>> light weight system which is simple to set up [...] >>>> >>>> For those people who like simple to set up and working systems but are >>>> willing to consider upgrading if it's also simple and will keep working, >>>> is there a NIS->$whatever migration document in fedora someplace? >>> >>> I don't think anyone has come up with an agreed upon $whatever that a >>> majority of people like. There is LDAP but that isn't light. There are >>> kerberos but that isn't easy. >> >> "light" in terms of CPU/network, who cares. "light" in terms of >> simplicity and maintenance, you have my attention. If there is no such >> gadget available, then please let's keep NIS around. >> > > The issue is that no one has written anything as simple as ypserv's > Makefile in the 35+ years yp has been around. Most of the replacements > start looking at all the problems yp brings with it from sending > things in plain text, ability to spoof services and controllers, > ability to spoof user/hosts, and a flood of other things.. and 'fixes > them'. Those fixes add in complexity and it goes back to 'this is > stupid, keep yp'. How many of these can be solved by tunneling everything in a WireGuard mesh network, and using nftables rules to prevent spoofing? Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
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