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Abstract: Introduction This note is a study of the security weaknesses present in a widely used Unix network protocol, Network Information Service (NIS). NIS (formerly known as Yellow Pages or YP) was developed by Sun Microsystems primarily to reduce the effort required to setup and maintain a network of Unix workstations. This is accomplished through the centralization on a NIS server of the major configuration files required to setup a Unix machine for a particular site. Thus only the set of... (Update)
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.... Network File System (NFS) 23] adds support for several hosts to share files over the network, while the Network Information System (NIS) [9], formally known as the Sun Yellow Pages, allow hosts to share system databases containg data concerning user account information, group...
.... and si(m 2 1 ) 2 H i ; a j = addr(m 2 q ) An example of this attack applied to the Network Information System is given in [10]. Sun s NIS is used in a network of hosts in order to manage and 16 distribute system maps, like host names and user passwords. In particular, when a...
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BibTeX entry: (Update)
David K. Hess, David R. Safford, and Udo W. Pooch. A Unix Network Protocol Security Study: Network Information Service. Technical report, Texas A & M University. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/12427.html More
@techreport{ hess92unix,
author = "David R. Safford David K. Hess and Udo W. Pooch",
title = "A Unix Network Protocol Security Study: Network Information Service",
year = "1992",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/12427.html" }
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