From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 17 10:36:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2E015B46 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 10:36:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA06817; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:34:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:34:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Stephen Roome Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD NIS client with HPUX NIS server. In-Reply-To: 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 NIS is suppost to export in a standard fashion, regardless of the native password format of the server On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Stephen Roome wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message