Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 20:01:19 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: Dylan Northrup <northrup@ucet.ufl.edu> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: password question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971009195232.549D-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.96.971009112814.95664B-100000@ronell.ucet.ufl.edu>
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On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Dylan Northrup wrote:
> 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?
_If_ you've installed DES, FreeBSD can use AIX passwords and vica
versa. Ala cut an encrypted password from /etc/security/passwd from
the AIX box, paste in into a vipw session on FreeBSD, and go. That's
how I converted our mail users from an aging AIX box ;)
> 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.
That dog won't hunt. The AIX and FreeBSD structure is different. Dust
off your Perl chops, spend some time with `man pw` on your FreeBSD
machine -- and for grins -- get ssh so you can automate it with
security. (Perl > 5.004 and ssh compile cleanly on AIX 3x & 4x.)
> 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)?
Give up on rdist -- it won't work.
> --
> 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"
>
-- Jay
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