NIS+ Client Support Available / libpam_unix help needed

[Rainer Dorsch]

Over the past few months (shortly after my ITP), Debian-NIS+ Client support 
was developed by a small group of non-Debian maintainers. I post on 
debian-devel, to make the effort known among the Debian developers and the 
SPARC users, who might work in a SUN NIS+ environment AND to ask for 
libpam_unix help (see below).

To get access to  the NIS+ client package (i386) for Debian (potato) include

deb http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/
deb-src http://www.realbodo.de/ debian/

in your /etc/apt/sources.list

To install your Debian system as a NIS+ client do 

apt-get install nisplus libpam-unix2

Then read the doc in /usr/share/doc/nisplus.

The package is based on SUSE's libpam_unix2 package, because the nisplus 
provided from Thorsten Kukuk from SUSE) package does not work with Debian's 
libpam_unix.  With Debian's libpam_unix the client machine must be in the 
admin group on the nis+ server. With libpam_unix2 there's no need for that 
security hole. Ben Collins is looking on the problem, but due to his many 
other functions in the Debian project, he is short of time.

The integration of the Debian NIS+ package in the Debian distribution would 
proceed faster, if somebody else would be looking in the PAM problem. I think 
some experience with the libpam_unix implementation is required. Certainly, 
nis+ access would be an advantage.

The packaging work was done by Michael Feger (University of Karlsruhe), 
testing and documentation was done by Sebastien Chaumat and Pascal 
Degiovanni(Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon). Both can be reached via the 
debian-nis+ mailalias [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you 
want to be added to the alias, please send a short email to me.

Thanks.

Rainer.
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Rainer Dorsch
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Uni StuttgartTel.: 0711-7816-215

Re: NIS+ Client Support Available / libpam_unix help needed

[Ben Collins]

 
 The integration of the Debian NIS+ package in the Debian distribution would 
 proceed faster, if somebody else would be looking in the PAM problem. I think 
 some experience with the libpam_unix implementation is required. Certainly, 
 nis+ access would be an advantage.
 

Just to clarify what needs to be done. I did not want to include a module
called pam_unix2.so for fear of confusion with users. What I would like to
see is the NIS+ functionality from pam_unix2.so to be merged into and work
seemlessly with the current pam_unix.so. Atleast this way, the changes can
be merged upstream, and integration is easier (e.g. just add nisplus to
the modules options in the pam config files to enable the functionality).

The folks the did all the work for this need a big thank you for the
work they have been doing.

Ben

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