From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 17 10:27:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cosrel2.hp.com (cosrel2.hp.com [156.153.255.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AE114FCA for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:26:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com) Received: from mothra.bri.hp.com (steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com [15.144.1.185]) by cosrel2.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id LAA00281 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:26:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (steveroo@localhost) by mothra.bri.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.1) id SAA20448 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:24:58 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:24:57 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD NIS client with HPUX NIS server. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a FreeBSD machine here and it's all looking good, except that the site IT folks want it in NIS, with an HP-UX 10.20 NIS server. =( [ Unimportant background : The reason I've been given is "security" and although using HP-UX 10.20, without shadow passwords and using NIS, (not NIS+) to serve passwords to FreeBSD (3.2 - with somewhat better encryption and shadowing) may sound like an absolutely mind bogglingly stupid idea.... this is the only way they will allow this machine to be on the network. ] Anyway, HP-UX's idea of a password is something like this : vvvv--- expiration data. AIUSFas/asdis,O/.M ^^^^^^^^^^^^^---- password and my FreeBSD paswords looks like so : (that's how long the password field is!) steve:*******************************: etc.. So, the question has to be, is there any feasible way of setting NIS to work so that I can pull people from the NIS server and still let them log in, or do I need to give them a FreeBSD passwd entry for every user. (clearly +@somegroup is going to be even more of a problem ?!) Thanks in advance, Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message