Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 09:35:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de (Robert Eckardt) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NISplus, SecureRPC Message-ID: <199805131335.JAA04205@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <199805122132.XAA00791@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> from "Robert Eckardt" at May 12, 98 11:32:09 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Robert Eckardt had to walk into mine and say: > Hi, > > since searching in the mail archives revealed nothing new, I try asking > on this forum whether someone is (still) working on implementing NIS+ > (at least the client part) on FreeBSD and if so what is the status ? > > It seems that Linux has support for NIS+ clients. Is this usable > from FreeBSD ? If you are asking: can I use the Linux NIS+ code with FreeBSD, the answer is no. First, the code needs to be ported. Second, you also need some kind of name service switch to use it, which FreeBSD doesn't have. If you are asking: does FreeBSD have any NIS+ support itself, the answer is no, not yet Yes, I am still working on NIS+ support for FreeBSD-current, however I've been sidetracked by other things recently (like writing a device driver and real work, and, oh, little inconsequential things like sleep). > Is the SecureRPC implementation complete and available to Non-US-citizens ? For the Nth time: Secure RPC itself is not subject to export restrictions. Secure RPC does not, in itself, contain any crypto code and only performs authentication operations, not data encryption. If you've downloaded and installed a FreeBSD-current snapshot, then you already have Secure RPC. The only complication is that in order to use it to interoperate with other systems, you have to install the DES distribution in order to get libdes.so. If you do this, then Secure RPC will work just fine. If you don't, it will still work, but it will only use 40-bit RC4 encrtyption which other systems using DES won't be able to understand. > The reason I ask is simply that I would like to add a FreeBSD-driven PC in > a NIS+-administered network. Be patient. If I'm really lucky, I just might be able to get the code imported in time for FreeBSD 3.0. _However_ we don't have a mechanism in place yet to do the work of a name service switch, so while you'll probably be able to use FreeBSD 3.0 as an NIS+ server, it may not work as a client. Now that BIND 8 has been imported there may be more of a chance to have it work since libbind contains IRS, which works much like the name service switch, however it hasn't yet been merged into libc from what I can tell. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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