Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:01:36 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: andy@ple.sat.co.at (Pleschutznig Andreas) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get YP to work ?? Message-ID: <199601180131.MAA04485@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9601171800.AA01124@ple.sat.co.at> from "Pleschutznig Andreas" at Jan 17, 96 07:00:24 pm
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Pleschutznig Andreas stands accused of saying:
>
> We have here following env.
>
> about 20 SUNS all running NIS+
^^^^ This will be a problem.
> some PC'c running BSDI, or freeBSD
> And yesterday we wanted to hook those BSD machine together with the
> suns using yp. We finally got the connection up and running (checked
> with a network sniffer) but the password encryption always fails.
Unless I am muchly mistaken, NIS+ is incompatible with the old YP/NIS.
If this isn't the case, and you're only having problems with the FreeBSD
machines, it may be that you don't have the DES libraries installed on
the FreeBSD side and the NIS server is choking on the MD5-encrypted
passwords.
> | Andreas Pleschutznig | Phone +43-663-9134811 |
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