From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 18 8:18:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel2.hp.com (atlrel2.hp.com [156.153.255.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E3E14D74 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 08:18:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from postal.sr.hp.com (root@postal.sr.hp.com [15.4.46.173]) by atlrel2.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id LAA29848 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:18:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com (root@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by postal.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id IAA12384; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 08:18:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id IAA25812; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 08:18:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909181518.IAA25812@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Stephen Roome , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD NIS client with HPUX NIS server. Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:24:57 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 08:18:39 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen Roome wrote: > Anyway, HP-UX's idea of a password is something like this : > > vvvv--- expiration data. > AIUSFas/asdis,O/.M > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^---- password I do have a patch that allows the expiration data to be ignored (not translated/used, but ignored) when logging on to FreeBSD. However, the issues with my patch are: * It's only purpose is to make logins work. It doesn't handle password expiration, etc., as the password expiration data is IGNORED. * Other commands, like passwd, are still broken. I thought about trying to fix passwd, but I'm not sure how yypasswdd will react when it tries to send a password without aging to the HP-UX NIS server. * I've only fixed login(1) (well, the unix PAM module, to be specific). * It might be better to fix getpwent.c and friends, instead of trying to fix the various modules/commands (login, passwd, etc.). * My patch doesn't check for/handle MD5 passwords, which is one reason why I haven't submitted it. -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message