From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 6 06:56:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA07682 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 06:56:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA07668 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 06:56:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk) Received: from brunos-sun.dcs.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.88.185]; by hotpoint.dcs.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5/S-4.0) with SMTP; id OAA28689; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:56:21 GMT Received: locally by brunos-sun (SMI-8.6/QMW-client-3.2b); poster "scott"; id OAA13236; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:55:38 GMT Message-ID: <19981106145538.U11520@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:55:38 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: "J. A. Landamore" , Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, dhw@whistle.com, wilhelm@milkyway.stdio.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS interaction with 3.0-RELEASE References: <4612.9811061026@sun2.mcs.le.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <4612.9811061026@sun2.mcs.le.ac.uk>; from J. A. Landamore on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 10:26:19AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 10:26:19AM +0000, J. A. Landamore wrote: > Thanks for your help with this, it certainly looks like the encryption could be > the problem - however living in the UK means I cannot get the DES package. I > also cannot find a port of DES to 3.0 from outside the US. I assume this means > I'm shafted until someone re-writes DES outside the US again. I also assume it > is not possible to use MD5 encryption on local accounts and crypt on NIS > accounts? > > Thanks for you help ftp.uk.freebsd.org appears to have the DES distribution, including sources, for both 2.2.7 and 3.0. If you point /stand/sysinstall there you should be fine, legally and getting NIS to work! AKAIK, you can have MD5 on local accounts, but you still need the DES stuff for NIS accounts to be able to log in. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message