Re: NIS

[Daniel Lysfjord <theemperor@smokepit.cjb.net>]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Francois Sauterey wrote:

> HI,
>
> I'm looking for any craft to secure YP:
>
> I'm working around shadow password  and yp.
>
> shadow passwords are stupid if "ypcat passwd" give the encripted passwords !
> Well, I use (in /etc/ypserv):
>   *                          : passwd.byname    : port       : yes
>   *                          : passwd.byuid     : port       : yes
>
> passwd are mangled , but the ftp server, on a YP-client machine, do not
> recognize any user.
>
> Any solution ?
>


If You are using ProFTPd, then using : "PersistentPasswd        off" in
your /etc/proftpd.conf would do the trick


-Daniel Lysfjord-