SYSKEY2. Request For Comments

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Cole, Timothy D. wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Phil Mayers [SMTP:p.mayers at ic.ac.uk]
> > Sent:	Monday, February 07, 2000 15:13
> > To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> > Subject:	Re: SYSKEY2.  Request For Comments
> > 
> > Hmm. Interesting point which I hadn't considered. For LDAP I would say
> > that the entry really ought to be ACL'd anyhow (they are here at my
> > site) which is similar to having a seperate password-protected database
> > file. Hmm. NIS and SQL I don't know about though.
> > 
> 	NIS is NIS.  The hashed passwords are visible to everyone.  NIS+

yes, but they're one-way hashes, not clear-text-equivalent hashes!

> does do some sort of limited-access thing, though.

yes.