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