Re: securityhole /proc/sys/kernel/domainname

Bernd Eckenfels (ukd1@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
18 Feb 1996 08:27:47 GMT

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Christoph Lameter (clameter@miriam.fuller.edu) wrote:
> this file should not be world readable. As I understand the Yellow Pages the
> domainname is a kind of password that allows NIS access.

PPL who use the nisdomainname as a passwort to protect NIS deserve to drink
warm beer and be slaped with a large trout. Every user on a System can read
the NIS/YP domainname (by getdomainname, sysctl or /proc). Have u ever typed
"nisdomainname" on the prompt?

Greetings
Bernd

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