From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 13:38:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA14245 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 13:38:05 -0700 Received: from alpha.enc.edu (alpha.enc.edu [199.93.252.250]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA14237 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 13:38:00 -0700 Received: by alpha.enc.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03 rev 11/30/94) id AA29698; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:36:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:36:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles N. Owens" To: Brian Litzinger Cc: questions list FreeBSD Subject: Re: installing DES, yp In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------