Thanks! We want to auth with password though. Just found in the docs where
it says NIS auth requires the hash to be set to crypt, so we are abandoning
this idea.

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 4:00 PM Rob Crittenden <rcrit...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Russell Jones via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> > I have a client bound to FreeIPA using NIS, however when doing a "ypcat
> > passwd" the password fields are an asterisk (*) instead of a password
> hash.
> >
> > The NIS integration docs are a bit sparse - am I missing something to
> > allow NIS clients to authenticate against FreeIPA as an actual NIS
> > client? Is that supported?
>
> The hash shouldn't be needed. It should be possible to use NIS to
> retrieve user information and authenticate using another mechanism than
> password, Kerberos for example.
>
> rob
>
>
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