Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 11:05:14 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: Pbl <fritz!pbl@dorotech.fr>, pzwf0@wwscso.amdahl.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ypclient talking to sun nis slave? Message-ID: <199701191805.LAA04211@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <32DFDC0E.41C67EA6@dorotech.fr> References: <199701171617.QAA02208@suntsg04.eur.amdahl.com> <32DFDC0E.41C67EA6@dorotech.fr>
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pzwf0@wwscso.amdahl.com wrote:
% I have been trying to get my bsd 2.2-beta system to act as a yp
% client to a ypserver running on solaris 2.5.1
fritz!pbl@dorotech.fr writes:
> I have the same problem on a FreeBSD 2.1.5 Release box...
>
> ... I have to modify the crypt() function in libscrypt to obtain the
> correct and shorter local password. These modifications are not clean
> and I wonder why this difference exists between Solaris NIS password
> encoding and FreeBSD password encoding ???
Because FreeBSD by default uses an MD5 digest of the password rather
than a DES encryption of the password.
GENERAL RULE ALERT:
IF YOU WANT TO USE NIS (aka Yellow Pages) BETWEEN FREEBSD AND OTHER
UNIX SYSTEMS YOU *MUST* INSTALL THE DES DISTRIBUTION.
If you don't FreeBSD will continue to try to use a completely different
encrypted password format, and it will *never* work.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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