Re: Cyrus IMAP/POP +NIS ?
Brian,
> Igor> Not according to my experience. I had problems with NIS RPC
> Igor> calls. Specifically, NIS clients can update NIS passwords
> Igor> on master, but cannot update local passwords (eg,
> Igor> root). Further, updating on master causes long delays and
> Igor> error message that password was NOT updated, while in
> Igor> reality it was. If you are interested, I can send detailed
> Igor> bug reports. I did send them to the PAM maintainer Ben
> Igor> Collins but didn't get any useful reply. I would be
> Igor> interested to hear from anybody who succeeded to use NIS +
> Igor> PAM.
>
> Sorry, I am confused: How is this related to Cyrus IMAP/POP?
Well, it isn't, at least not directly.
I just wanted to point out that PAM + NIS doesn't works as advertised
and that one should be aware of this. Or, even better, that somebody
who got it working as expected could show me what am I doing wrong.
> If PAM is supported, then NIS should be supported via the pam_unix.so
> PAM module.
In my experience, PAM + NIS authentication works fine which is
probably sufficient for Cyrus IMAP/POP. However, password changing
doesn't work as expected.
-Igor Mozetic
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