Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:26:42 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: benfell@parts-unknown.org Cc: sonicy@otenet.gr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, benfell@parts-unknown.org Subject: Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS Message-ID: <200710160126.l9G1QgdW082501@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20071015204022.GA76464@parts-unknown.org> (message from David Benfell on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:40:22 -0700) References: <20071015054707.GA34948@parts-unknown.org> <47138DE7.80800@otenet.gr> <20071015190846.GB86225@parts-unknown.org> <4713BF9F.3050803@otenet.gr> <20071015204022.GA76464@parts-unknown.org>
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> 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
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