Date: Fri, 6 Nov 98 10:00:40 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: jal@mcs.le.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bug in 3-0 RELEASE? Message-ID: <H000057c019cadfc@MHS> In-Reply-To: <23069.9811051514@sun2.mcs.le.ac.uk>
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Hello, maybe it's not a bug, but a Feature ;-)) I haven't checked it for 3.0, but 2.2 used to encode passwords via an MD5-based encryption, whereas trditionnaly UNIX (and NIS/YP) uses DES, so you can't directly exchange password databases (in the shadow database, MD5-passwords begin with $1$, I think). To get around this difficulty, you have to tell FreeBSD to encode passwords with DES (I don't remember how .... but there must be something in the handbook) TfH > This is probably the wrong place to post this, but as I'm not on any of the > mailing lists, sorry but here goes. > > There appears to be a problem with 3.0-RELEASE when trying to use NIS for user > login. > I have 3.0 installed set up as a nis client. when I try and log in using the > nis account I get > > Login Incorrect. > > If I look at the traffic to the NIS master it is interrogating it correctly and > > getting the correct reply. If I log in as root and su to the user I get the > users filestore. I get the correct maps with ypcat. Local users can log in > fine. I create a local user with the same shell and home as my remote user, he > > can log in, put a + infront of the password entry to get it use a NIS map and he > > cannot log in. I _KNOW_ I'm typing in the correct password. > Any ideas? > > Please mail directly to me at > > jal@mcs.le.ac.uk > > Many thanks > > > > John Landamore | Researchers have already cast much darkness | > Sys. Admin. | on the subject, and if they continue their | > | investigations we shall soon know nothing | > e-mail: jal@mcs.le.ac.uk | at all about it. | > | - Mark Twain - | > > Phone: +44 (0)116 2523410 > Fax: +44 (0)116 2523604 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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