Re: tiger always reports 'no password' with NIS
Sebastian Haase said:
> Hi all! I would like to repost my email from Aug 20th of this year,
> because I still don't know would the solution is.
> Is it maybe a bug of tiger (that it doesn't know about NIS)
> (That's why I'm also cc-ing to the package-maintainer - hope that's OK)
> Thanks, Sebastian
>
> Please read this:
>> Hi !
>> I installed tiger to have some checks on my security sone:
>> But everyday I get messages like these:
>> # Performing check of user accounts...
>> # Checking accounts from /etc/passwd.
>> --WARN-- [acc011w] Login ID +alexis does not have a password.
>>
>> That is: I use NIS and have specific users maked with a '+' - sign in
>> /etc/passwd
>> like this:
>> +alexis::0:0:::
>>
>> Isn't this a correct way of 'nis-sifying' certain users !?
yes that is correct, the system is probably complaining because it can't
find a password in /etc/shadow. Which is to be expected if your using
NIS, or some other authentication(PAM with mysql, ldap, etc)
nate
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