: äðãåï: Re: What did I do
right?
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On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:50:56AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, may ypcat truely reviels the shadow password list (and you can read
it with a sniffer), but what about authentification?
Maybe while authenticating users, only the master server compares the user
password with the
Alex Shnitman wrote:
I don't know how exactly his configuration works, but FWIW if you're
using shadow passwords from a Solaris server, a user cannot ypcat
passwd.adjunct, only root can. And if you're going to authenticate
users from a central service on the network, be it NIS or anything
I don't know how exactly his configuration works, but FWIW if you're
using shadow passwords from a Solaris server, a user cannot ypcat
passwd.adjunct, only root can.
Of course, this was the purpose of shadow passwords. The shadow password system
don't allow ordinary users to read the passwd
was using shadow passwords, so I went to /var/yp and
ran make shadow (or shadow.byname -- don't recall exacly) and copied the
file it created to /var/yp/(mydomain) AND IT WORKED.
What did I do right? Is it not a NIS domain?
Did I unknowingly create an NYS or an NIS+ domain?
Is the nag too outdat
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Isaac Aaron wrote:
What did I do right? Is it not a NIS domain?
Did I unknowingly create an NYS or an NIS+ domain?
Is the nag too outdated?
i'd make a guess that your client machine does NOT use shadow passwords.
this way this setup could work, but then your shadow
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:52:27PM -0400, Isaac Aaron wrote:
[Shadow passwords not supposed to work with NIS but do]
Is the nag too outdated?
It is. I recently had to set up a Linux machine as a NIS client where
the server is a Solaris box, and it worked, even though Solaris uses a
different
guy keren wrote:
i'd make a guess that your client machine does NOT use shadow passwords.
this way this setup could work, but then your shadow passwords are not
shadowed at all - they can be seen by anyone that can access the NIS
system...
guy
It's the other way around -
ypcat -d
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Isaac Aaron wrote:
It's the other way around -
ypcat -d mycomain passwd
returned 'x' in the password field.
you say 'returned' in the past tense. does it mean that now it returns
something else? like the actual encrypted password?
Network authentification only started
