NIS authentication

[Russ Allbery]

Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar <uhlar at fantomas.sk> writes:

> -> My understanding of the original message is that he wants to not just
> -> allow any user who can authenticate as a NIS user to read news, but rather
> -> those users who can authenticate *and* who are members of a specific NIS
> -> group.

> I studies NIS but it's time ago. Are you sure NIS groups are designed
> for such things ?

They're just like regular Unix groups, but distributed.  I probably
wouldn't do it this way, but it's a logical extension of how Unix groups
can be used (for example, back in the days where people would log on to
the news server to read news locally, one could only put particular people
in the news group and lock off access to them).

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>