Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 08:18:39 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD NIS client with HPUX NIS server. Message-ID: <199909181518.IAA25812@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:24:57 BST."
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Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com> wrote:
> Anyway, HP-UX's idea of a password is something like this :
>
> vvvv--- expiration data.
> AIUSFas/asdis,O/.M
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^---- password
I do have a patch that allows the expiration data to be ignored
(not translated/used, but ignored) when logging on to FreeBSD. However,
the issues with my patch are:
* It's only purpose is to make logins work. It doesn't handle password
expiration, etc., as the password expiration data is IGNORED.
* Other commands, like passwd, are still broken. I thought about trying
to fix passwd, but I'm not sure how yypasswdd will react when it tries
to send a password without aging to the HP-UX NIS server.
* I've only fixed login(1) (well, the unix PAM module, to be specific).
* It might be better to fix getpwent.c and friends, instead of trying to
fix the various modules/commands (login, passwd, etc.).
* My patch doesn't check for/handle MD5 passwords, which is one reason
why I haven't submitted it.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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