COTSE-Security-NIS

NIS

NIS Paper Describes the security weakness of NIS. Postscript.

Securing NIS A brief compendium of what Auburn Univeristy College of Engineering uses to secure NIS networks.

ypghost A program Arny wrote that does the UDP NIS spoofing described in the 'NIS_Paper'. Also needed is the library.

ypx ypx, a program thats used in a similar way to ypcat(1) only this gets NIS maps (such as the passwd and shadow passwd files) from any site that runs ypserv(8) as long as you can guess the NIS domainname and they haven't blocked the port (15K).

ypsnarf Use the bootparam to try to guess a sites NIS domain name and retrieve passwd files. For sites running ypserv(8). C.


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