Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:34:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD NIS client with HPUX NIS server. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909171334020.1597-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.10.9909171807080.20279-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>
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NIS is suppost to export in a standard fashion, regardless of the native password format of the server On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Stephen Roome wrote: > > I've got a FreeBSD machine here and it's all looking good, except that the > site IT folks want it in NIS, with an HP-UX 10.20 NIS server. =( > > [ Unimportant background : > The reason I've been given is "security" and although using HP-UX 10.20, > without shadow passwords and using NIS, (not NIS+) to serve passwords to > FreeBSD (3.2 - with somewhat better encryption and shadowing) may sound like an > absolutely mind bogglingly stupid idea.... this is the only way they will allow > this machine to be on the network. ] > > Anyway, HP-UX's idea of a password is something like this : > > vvvv--- expiration data. > AIUSFas/asdis,O/.M > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^---- password > > and my FreeBSD paswords looks like so : > (that's how long the password field is!) > > steve:*******************************: etc.. > > So, the question has to be, is there any feasible way of setting NIS to work so > that I can pull people from the NIS server and still let them log in, or do I > need to give them a FreeBSD passwd entry for every user. > > (clearly +@somegroup is going to be even more of a problem ?!) > > Thanks in advance, > > Steve > > > > 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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