Obtaining NIS domainname from Gatorbox

[DSacerdo () world std com (David Sacerdote)]

> Gatorboxes are shipped without a user password set. Once connected to your
> net, it is easy to telnet to one of these things and log in with ANY id
> iff there is no user password set. 

True

> The user account can't change anything, 
Not quite true: the user can add to the log files.  While I have not 
tested this, I wouldn't be surprised if the user could place escape 
sequences in those logs, which could be a nuisance.

> but can look at really 
> interesting things. For example, if you have the GatorShare software
> running using NIS authentication, it will freely tell you what the
> NIS domainname is.

And quite a bit more, like the topology of your appletalk networks.

                David Sacerdote