From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 4 18:00:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA06133 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 May 1995 18:00:54 -0700 Received: from skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (skynet.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.70]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA06126 for ; Thu, 4 May 1995 18:00:49 -0700 Received: (from wpaul@localhost) by skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA00158; Thu, 4 May 1995 19:57:37 -0400 From: "House of Debuggin'" Message-Id: <199505042357.TAA00158@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: YP Compatible password program? Or similar... To: rls@kilroy.id.net (Robert Shady) Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 19:57:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505042316.TAA07743@kilroy.id.net> from "Robert Shady" at May 4, 95 07:16:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1259 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk They say this Robert Shady person was kidding when he wrote: > > We have several machines here that users can login to. We are currently > using one machine that they can't login into as the server machine, that > regularly copies down password files to the login machines.. Understand? > > Basically, we are looking for a freely available program that works > similar to the YP password program suite. It needs to run on FreeBSD. > > ==== Well, aside from the fact that it's widely regarded as insecure, why not just use YP/NIS? FreeBSD-current has both client and server-side NIS support, including yppasswd and yppasswdd. (It does not have yp_update() or ypupdated, however. Fortunately, few people seem to use them.) -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~~~~ FreeBSD 2.1: "We can kick your operating system's ass!" ~~~~~~~~~~