On Sunday, 2003-12-07 at 00:58:59 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > >Can't be NIS. NIS will transport any password style faithfully. Of > >course the master server must support MD5 passwords if you change your > >password and the passwd command sends an MD5 password to the > >yppasswordd.
> I've heard about non-Linux NIS client (for example, solaris8 and > SFU - Windows Service for Unix) cannot use MD5 password for NIS. > Is it not true? Can't tell about Windows. But Solaris up to the most recent released version (Solaris 9) can only use DES passwords. I believe I read that Solaris 10 will add support for MD5. FreeBSD supports MD5 passwords. So it's not non-Linux. Lupe Christoph -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lupe-christoph.de/ | | "Violence is the resort of the violent" Lu Tze | | "Thief of Time", Terry Pratchett | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
