Over the past few months (shortly after my ITP), Debian-NIS+ Client support was developed by a small group of non-Debian maintainers. I post on debian-devel, to make the effort known among the Debian developers and the SPARC users, who might work in a SUN NIS+ environment AND to ask for libpam_unix help (see below).
To get access to the NIS+ client package (i386) for Debian (potato) include deb http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ deb-src http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list To install your Debian system as a NIS+ client do apt-get install nisplus libpam-unix2 Then read the doc in /usr/share/doc/nisplus. The package is based on SUSE's libpam_unix2 package, because the nisplus provided from Thorsten Kukuk from SUSE) package does not work with Debian's libpam_unix. With Debian's libpam_unix the client machine must be in the admin group on the nis+ server. With libpam_unix2 there's no need for that security hole. Ben Collins is looking on the problem, but due to his many other functions in the Debian project, he is short of time. The integration of the Debian NIS+ package in the Debian distribution would proceed faster, if somebody else would be looking in the PAM problem. I think some experience with the libpam_unix implementation is required. Certainly, nis+ access would be an advantage. The packaging work was done by Michael Feger (University of Karlsruhe), testing and documentation was done by Sebastien Chaumat and Pascal Degiovanni(Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon). Both can be reached via the debian-nis+ mailalias [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want to be added to the alias, please send a short email to me. Thanks. Rainer. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni Stuttgart Tel.: 0711-7816-215
