Re: Serving NIS to Solaris client -- UNSECURE=True

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From
Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Date
14 Apr 1999 14:21:41
Subject
Re: Serving NIS to Solaris client -- UNSECURE=True
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Pine.BSF.4.03.9904141418060.15989-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu

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On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I need to add a Solaris machine to the happy family of FreeBSD
> machines sharing the user and other databases.
>
> I DID uncomment ``UNSECURE=True'' in the /var/yp/Makefile and
> rebuilt all the files.
>
> ``ypcat passwd'' on all clients (including the Solaris one) now
> lists the encrypted passwords in the second fields of the record.
> All passwords start with the $-sign.

Then they are MD5-encoded. Solaris does not support MD5 encryption, so
you'll have to install the DES libs on the FreeBSD box and have everyone
change their passwords.

Sorry.

Doug White
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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