Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-23 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> Next problem: The net nis master runs slink. A slink client works after > shadow has been configured and + added to /etc/shadow. > A client runs partly potato, and does not work, i.e. it won't accept nis > passwords. NIS itself appears to work, i.e. I can see the right owners of > directo

Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Nils Rennebarth wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 10:01:53AM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > Hmmm, perhaps you'll have to generate your own intermediate passwd file to > > generate the NIS maps. However, I would perhaps reconsider using shadow. > > Unless > > you're only serving up some (not r

Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hmmm, perhaps you'll have to generate your own intermediate passwd file to >generate the NIS maps. Ah yes, a possibility is to include the password in /etc/password, and then filter that out again for shadow-capable host

Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Hmmm, perhaps you'll have to generate your own intermediate passwd file to generate the NIS maps. However, I would perhaps reconsider using shadow. Unless you're only serving up some (not root, etc.) passwords from NIS and have set up NIS to work this way there's no benefit to running shadow locall

Re: Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
Again following up on my own posts, sigh: On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 03:22:58PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > Next problem: The net nis master runs slink. A slink client works after > shadow has been configured and + added to /etc/shadow. > A client runs partly potato, and does not work, i.

Linux nis and shadow passwords, non Linux clients

1999-04-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I recently switched our nis master server from AIX to linux. There are still a number of AIX hosts that should be run as nis clients or nis slaves. How do non shadow password clients get the password entries? How do I make it on AIX which doesn't have shadow passwords but a similar mechanism usin