From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 13:37:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09441 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09426 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:37:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA25784; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:25:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:25:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Palle Girgensohn cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nis w/ FreeBSD & Solaris, shadow passwd In-Reply-To: <35AAAF4D.9C629FAB@partitur.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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