Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:29:14 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS Message-ID: <47143E1A.1080000@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <200710160126.l9G1QgdW082501@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <20071015054707.GA34948@parts-unknown.org> <47138DE7.80800@otenet.gr> <20071015190846.GB86225@parts-unknown.org> <4713BF9F.3050803@otenet.gr> <20071015204022.GA76464@parts-unknown.org> <200710160126.l9G1QgdW082501@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it >> uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now >> to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't >> remember details). >> > > If I am not wrong, NIS does not know anything about master.passwd or > shadow, it has only passwd.byname passwd.byuid as password maps, both > maps including password in them. > > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > You are probably right, I don't remember the exact files right now, the thing is the maps are not linux compatible, so if anyone has a NIS Makefile for this, I'd be glad to get a copy. I already tried a patch I found but was not successful.
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