On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
I thought I'd ask one more time to see if anyone has any information on making SuSE Linux work with a standard NIS server before I give up and go back to FreeBSD...
There are differences between these two making it a bit complicated to set up a NIS server recognized by both Linux and FreeBSD:
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2. NIS tables are different for both systems. 3. NIS on Linux does not know about "shadow" maps and doesn't accept "*" for passwords, making it look at another map.
Ummm. That's configurable. If you're happy with what your server has, fix the list in /etc/nsswitch.conf on the client. In particular, replace the line "passwd: compat" with the two lines "passwd: files nis" and "shadow: files nis".
If you want to try it nevertheless, setup your FreeBSD NIS server now: - combine passwd and shadow - export the new map
make shure passwords are seen on linux side by executing "ypcat passwd". Now switch linux to use MD5 for password entries. You should be off and running now!
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