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Re: nis & shadow



Note there is little use to combining shadow passwords and NIS. Any machine on
the net can get NIS maps. Now, if you're using NIS+ that's a different story
because authentication is used.

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980219164959.3515A-100000@vhoorl.rli-net.net>,
> Gabriel Millerd <millerd@rli-net.net> wrote:
> >Anyone have NIS running with shadow passwords? Or care to enlighten me on
> >how I might get that working?
>
> It only works on libc6 systems, because libc5 itself has no support
> built-in for shadow password NIS maps. So you should upgrade to hamm
> (and all utilities that use shadow passwords to libc6), install the
> latest nis package and it should work.
>
> Mike.
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