From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 9 09:13:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA09171 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:13:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ucet.ufl.edu (ronell.ucet.ufl.edu [128.227.243.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA09166 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 09:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from northrup@ucet.ufl.edu) Received: from localhost (northrup@localhost) by ucet.ufl.edu (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA38610 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:13:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:13:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Dylan Northrup To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: password question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We're intending on putting a FreeBSD box into production along some AIX boxes. Is there some sort of way that we can get compatability between the password generated by FreeBSD and the passwords on the AIX boxen? Currently we rdist the password files to the various machines. Previously we used yp/NIS, however the password maps were compromised and the idea of using NIS around here again has not been well received. Are they any ideas that would help with this problem (and, no, we can't just depricate the AIX boxes, no matter how much I'd love to)? -- Dylan Northrup <*> northrup@ucet.ufl.edu <*> http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~northrup <*> --------------- Random B5 Quote "Sometimes you have to heal the family before you heal the patient." -- Dr. Franklin, "Believers"