> Also, point 8 in chapter 10 of the HOWTO says
>
> Solaris doesn't use always privileged ports. So don't use
> password mangling if you have a Solaris client.
>
> Password mangling? What is this? It doesn't even describe it
> or how to "turn it off".
>
I have figured out to what this refers, fixed it, and can now log
in on Unixware 7 and Solaris 7. The "mangled password" reference
was actually a good clue, and I never thought of doing
# find / -exec grep "mangle" {} /dev/null \;
to find references in every file... No, I didn't do this, but
I happened to examine the ypserv.conf file... Would you believe
there's a section that goes like this:
# The following, when uncommented, will give you shadow like passwords.
# Note that it will not work if you have slave NIS servers in your
# network that do not run the same server as you.
# Host : Map : Security : Passwd_mangle
#
* : passwd.byname : port : yes
* : passwd.byuid : port : yes
Well, as you can see, those last two lines were uncommented with mangle
set to yes, so that's why Solaris couldn't authenticate. I recommend
a change to the HOWTO with a referece to these lines in ypserv.conf after
that otherwise cryptic comment in the HOWTO. So after commenting
those out (I wonder what would happen if I changed "yes" to "no?),
everything works--including Unixware 7 which just needed that +::::::
at the end of /etc/passwd (I had apparently backed it out for other
testing).
So all is well. Hopefully this post will get archived somewhere for
others' use.
Thanks for the forum!
Brendan Miller
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