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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:13:11 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Security - Phase 2
Message-ID:  <199902162113.XAA02895@greenpeace.grondar.za>

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Hello all

Thank you for bearing with me, and thank you to those who found
and bore with glitches in the registration.

Phase two is about to take place. This should be 100% invisible to
those of you who use SSH to "auto-login". It should have a predictable
impact on folk who wish to use a password in that the registered
password will be used.

At a time-to-be-precisely-announced; the majority of user accounts
on freefall will be replaced by equivalent entries in a NIS map. If
you do not know what this is, please "man NIS". Essentially it gives
network control to certain files in /etc (most importantly
/etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group).

The changeover should be seamless, so please do not be concerned.

This is your last chance to set up SSH for password-free logins.

M
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Mark Murray
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