On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Neeraj Arora wrote: > Hi Geeks, Girls and Guys, > > ...:^) > > I am having a little problem setting up a debian client to derive login data from a > freebsd nis server. There is no problem when the freebsd nis server interacts with > freebsd clients, but there is a problem when it interacts with a debian gnu/linux > client. > > The authentication works when I force a password in the /etc/passwd file on the > debian gnu/linux system. E.g.: > +login_whatever:$1$blahblahblah:::::/bin/bash > +::::::/bin/bash > > But, it does not work when the password has to be sourced from the nis server (viz. > a freebsd machine). I confirmed that both are communicating/operating on nis v2. And > moreover, the password on the freebsd server are stored in md5 too. > > So, I dont seem to understand what the problem may be. > > Any help will be great...:) > > Regards, > Neeraj > > N.B.: I am a freebsd devotee and thus posting this to the > freebsd-questions mailing list. I might try debian mailing lists too, > but first here...:)
Look into /var/yp/Makefile for something looking like this: # If you want to use a FreeBSD NIS server to serve non-FreeBSD clients # (i.e. clients who expect the password field in the passwd maps to be # valid) then uncomment this line. This will cause $YPDIR/passwd to # be generated with valid password fields. This is insecure: FreeBSD # normally only serves the master.passwd maps (which have real encrypted # passwords in them) to the superuser on other FreeBSD machines, but # non-FreeBSD clients (e.g. SunOS, Solaris (without NIS+), IRIX, HP-UX, # etc...) will only work properly in 'unsecure' mode. # UNSECURE = "True" You probably have to set UNSECURE equal to True and to rebuild the maps. Regards Konrad Heuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
