04-08-2009
NIS is not secure, a "
ypcat passwd" will give all the users (no problem with that) but also the the users' encrypted passwords which can then be cracked...
Network security as a whole is an enormous subject, one site worth looking at concerning IT security is at:
Center for Internet Security - Standards
I hope others may point you at more network security focused sites.
You may want to consider getting some training and certification, e.g.:
http://www.isc2.org/credentials/default.aspx
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ns_absoluteurl
Ns_Url(3aolserver) AOLserver Library Procedures Ns_Url(3aolserver)
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NAME
Ns_AbsoluteUrl, Ns_ParseUrl, Ns_RelativeUrl, Ns_SkipUrl - URL manipulation routines
SYNOPSIS
#include "ns.h"
int
Ns_AbsoluteUrl(Ns_DString *pds, char *url, char *baseurl)
int
Ns_ParseUrl(char *url, char **pprotocol, char **phost,
char **pport, char **ppath, char **ptail)
char *
Ns_RelativeUrl(char *url, char *location)
char *
Ns_SkipUrl(Ns_Request *request, int n)
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DESCRIPTION
Ns_AbsoluteUrl(pds, url, baseurl)
Construct an URL based on baseurl but with as many parts of the incomplete url as possible. Return NS_OK or NS_ERROR.
Ns_ParseUrl(url, pprotocol, phost, pport, ppath, ptail)
Parse a URL into its component parts. Pointers to the protocol, host, port, path, and "tail" (last path element) will be set by ref-
erence in the passed-in pointers. The passed-in url will be modified.
Ns_RelativeUrl(url, location)
If the url passed in is for this server, then the initial part of the URL is stripped off. e.g., on a server whose location is
http://www.foo.com, Ns_RelativeUrl of "http://www.foo.com/hello" will return "/hello". Returns a pointer to the beginning of the
relative url in the passed-in url, or NULL if error. Will set errno on error.
Ns_SkipUrl(request, n)
Return a pointer n elements into the request's url.
SEE ALSO
nsd(1), info(n)
KEYWORDS
AOLserver 4.0 Ns_Url(3aolserver)