Re: NIS

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <cistron.199810142151.XAA00758@zara21.jct.ac.il>,
Alex Shnitman  <shnitman@mail.debian.org> wrote:
>Is anyone using NIS with hamm? I'm trying to set it to work against a
>Solaris NIS server and it doesn't work. I've got everything up to the
>point that "ypcat passwd" indeed cats all the passwd file from the NIS
>server (with the passwords replaced with "##username").

That means the Sun uses yet another way of shadow passwords: the
shadow.adjunct file. GNU libc supports this I think, but you have to use
a libc6 from slink. I've never tried it ofcourse, but the ChangeLog says:

1998-07-06 12:04  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

        * nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c (internal_nis_getpwent_r): Handle adjunct
        password scheme.
        (_nss_nis_getpwnam_r): Likewise.
        (_nss_nis_getpwuid_r): Likewise.

>I suspect it has something to do with the way shadow passwords work in
>Solaris and in Linux. However, on an adjacent Slackware box it works
>flawlessly. What can be the problem?

Is the output of "ypcat passwd" the same? Does the Slackware box
run libc5, libc6, what version etc?

>I tried to upgrade to the latest nis distribution from slink (and it
>took the libc along with it) but it did not help.

Can you do "ypcat passwd.adjunct" (as root!) ? Perhaps you need to
fiddle with /etc/nsswitch.conf

Mike.
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