Hi All
I am having some problems getting shadow passwords to work. I upgraded
the server to RedHat 6.0 and re-installed NIS including, during the
installation, enabling shadow passwords. However, they don't seem to
work as the full encrypted password rather than an "x" appears when
doing a ypcat for a user.
I think it has something to do with the fact that in the
/var/yp/Makefile, I had to set the options below to "false" because when
they were set to "true", NIS didn't want to make the byname files. I had
to get NIS up and running so I turned the following to "false":
# Should we merge the passwd file with the shadow file ?
# MERGE_PASSWD=true|false
MERGE_PASSWD=false
# Should we merge the group file with the gshadow file ?
# MERGE_GROUP=true|false
MERGE_GROUP=false
When it was set to true, the error message said something along the
lines of "no rule to merge password" and " no rule to merge group".
Does anyone know how to enable shadow passwords - most importantly so
that the "x" rather than the full encrypted password appears when doing
a ypcat?
Thanks
Hugo
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Dr Hugo Bouckaert - Systems Administrator, Computer Science UWA
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