From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 1 17:06:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA20352 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 17:06:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA20347 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 17:06:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) id TAA25544; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:05:59 -0600 (CST) Posted-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:05:59 -0600 (CST) Received: from bullfrog.ecp.net(204.246.64.212) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0beta) id xma025533; Tue, 1 Apr 97 19:05:46 -0600 Received: from localhost (raistlin@localhost) by bullfrog.ecp.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id TAA15363; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:05:53 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:05:52 -0600 (CST) From: Justen Stepka To: Ernie Elu cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS In-Reply-To: <199704011227.WAA04276@spooky.eis.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Ernie Elu wrote: > I have a network with 3x Linux servers and 3x FreeBSD servers on it that I > am trying to get NIS running on. One of the FreeBSD servers is to be the > ypserv master and another will be a slave. The linux boxes are 2x terminal > servers and 1x shell + pop server thus they will just be clients. > > Do I have to run DES passwords on the FreeBSD machines as they are all > currently MD5? Yes you do, it's really easy to install. > The Debian/Linux machines are all running shadow passwords which I > guess are still DES. I would personaly run FreeBSD on all the machines because if you want to export the shadow stuff it's insecure and your users will be able to see the passwd feild. FreeBSD's NIS is like SunOS in that the passwd feild is not shown with any ypcat map.