Hi Anyone able to help me with the problem outlined below? Maybe point me to a HOW-TO on the web somewhere or some other information pages (man pages for shadow passwords are not much good I am afraid). Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks Hugo -- Dr Hugo Bouckaert - Systems Administrator, Computer Science UWA Tel: +(61 8) 9380 2878 / Fax: +(61 8) 9380 1089 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Web: http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au/~hugo
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 -- Dr Hugo Bouckaert - Systems Administrator, Computer Science UWA Tel: +(61 8) 9380 2878 / Fax: +(61 8) 9380 1089 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Web: http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au/~hugo
