From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 15 12:12:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2244E14CE0 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstone@win.net) Received: from indigo (bang.i.win.net [216.24.1.3]) by ns1.win.net (8.9.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA17054 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:12:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00d101beb76b$421049e0$030118d8@indigo.win.net> From: "Kyle Stone" To: Subject: Alternative password storing and NIS. Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:11:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00CE_01BEB741.58FEBF80" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00CE_01BEB741.58FEBF80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am seeking any ideas or opinions on this subject. I am = implementing NIS for use in a LAN to enable shared passwords with = serveral servers. The only problem I've ran into with NIS is that my = FTPd, POP, and radius daemons all require an independant password file. = The only way I can find to have different password files for the servers = but still keep them managed from a single location is to hack the = daemons so that they read the passwords from a NFS mount. If I'm going = to do this I may very well have to toss NIS out the window and just = place the pwd.dbs on a NFS mount point available to all of my machines. = =20 ------=_NextPart_000_00CE_01BEB741.58FEBF80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I am seeking = any ideas or=20 opinions on this subject. I am implementing NIS for use in a = LAN to=20 enable shared passwords with serveral servers. The only = problem I've=20 ran into with NIS is that my FTPd, POP, and radius daemons all = require an=20 independant password file. The only way I can find to have = different=20 password files for the servers but still keep them managed from a = single=20 location is to hack the daemons so that they read the passwords from = a NFS=20 mount. If I'm going to do this I may very well have to toss NIS out = the=20 window and just place the pwd.dbs on a NFS mount point available to = all of=20 my machines.

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