From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 17:32:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA25159 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:32:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA25098 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:32:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id RAA23802 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 17:28:26 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA04485; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:01:36 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601180131.MAA04485@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: How to get YP to work ?? To: andy@ple.sat.co.at (Pleschutznig Andreas) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 12:01:36 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601171800.AA01124@ple.sat.co.at> from "Pleschutznig Andreas" at Jan 17, 96 07:00:24 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 | -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[