NIS-aware rshd and rlogind available

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Tue Sep 16 17:00:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:28:43AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>The (unmodified) linux/GNU source tarballs and a build script for
>building NIS client tools and NIS-aware versions of rshd and rlogind
>for Cygwin can be found at:
>
>http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/nis-0.1/
>
>Please note that this is based on somewhat old NIS code and is
>susceptible to attack by someone who has control of a DNS server, so
>don't use this for anything where you need real security...

Why are you mentioning this here?  It doesn't seem to be an actual cygwin
package nomination.



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