Authorization is the process of deciding if entity X is allowed to have access to resource Y. Determining the identity of X is the job of the authentication process. One task of authorization in ...

I'm migrating from solaris to linux as my primary NIS server... <BR><BR>So far i can authenticate on all the configured systems but when i try to change password with yppasswd it says :<BR><BR>on ...

NIS (nee YP) appears to be immortal. It’s almost 30 years old, and it is still in widespread use today. Sure, you could point to many other protocols and services in current use that are as old or ...