Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:25:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nis w/ FreeBSD & Solaris, shadow passwd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161324250.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35AAAF4D.9C629FAB@partitur.se>
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > I'm about to set up a network with NIS (YP), and have a solaris and a > bunch of Freebsd boxes on a LAN. Both systems use shadow passwords, yet > all docs I've found about nis on freebsd says that I need to configure > it _not_ to use shadow passwords to interoperate with other OSes, since > most systems don't support shadow passwords. Solaris does, though... For the purposes of NIS, it doesn't matter. > Once a remember seeing a refererence to solaris, and it said that I > mustn't use shadow pw unless solaris runs nis+. This is odd, since > freebsd can't run nis+. Maybe one has to run solaris as the server, > running nis+ and beeing compatible w/ nis? NIS+ is competely separate from NIS. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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