Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:36:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles N. Owens" <owensc@alpha.enc.edu> To: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com> Cc: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: installing DES, yp Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.950808163056.23795A-100000@alpha.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0sfuoY-000rfhC@easynet.com>
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On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, Brian Litzinger wrote:
>
> > I've got some questions concerning getting 2.0.5-R to use DES and yp.
>
> > I THINK I've installed DES. Basically, I went to the root dir and
> > [...]
> > Next, I seem to have yp working (it does seem to be talking to a server)
> > but passwords don't seem to translate between the two systems (should it
> > matter that the server is an AIX box?) Now that I (think that I) have
> > DES installed, do I need to recompile the yp binaries?
>
> you need to make sure that the libcrypt* entries are links to the
> libdes* entries in /usr/lib.
>
> These links usually end up pointing to the wrong files when you
> simply untar the des.aa file onto your filesystem.
>
Ah-ha! My password entries look MUCH more DES-like now. Still, however,
yp doesn't seem to work. Passwords are always bad. Any ideas what
might be wrong?
thanks,
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