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Hello,

I'v found some very old message about this problem in this group, but
there was no solution.

I' ve set up a NIS server on a Linux machine ( ubuntu 5.01)
following this howto
everything seems to be ok

my sun machine is binded to ypserv on linux

Quote:>ypwhich

inv09748 ( my linux nis server)

Quote:> ypcat passwd

cao8:$1$JL6XpfxxxxxqctkdfFSycuu/:5008:5000::/home/cao8:/usr/bin/ksh

but when i try to log with cao8 => " incorrect login"

i can only log with root

loggued with root in can do :
su - cao8
and it works fine

so ... if someone can help, i will be very gracefull

(sorry for my english, i'm french)

Quote:> I' ve set up a NIS server on a Linux machine ( ubuntu 5.01)

If possible, configure it the other way around. As NIS(YP) is a Sun
Solaris product, use that machine as the ypserver.

Probably the problem is that the password hashing algorithms are not
the same...
When U su as root, it ignores the password check.

Quote:> (sorry for my english, i'm french)

No problem, I'm from Sweden...(bork,bork,bork ;-))

you were right.

the encrypted password differ between linux and sun ( probably due to
MD5 )

for exemple :
/etc/shadow from linux machine
cao8:$1$JL6Xpfw2$exxxxqctRbUkdfFSycuu/:13214:0:99999:7:::

/etc/shadow from sun (for the same password)
cao8:qSylShhxxxxv6:5008:5000::/home/cao8:/usr/bin/ksh

so here's the solve

 i made a /etc/shadow-nis with the encrypted password (by sun)
cao8:qSylShhxxxxv6:::::::

and a /etc/passwd-nis to avoid mess with local linux user

i modified the /var/yp/Makefile with the following

MERGE_PASSWD=true
[...]
PASSWD      = $(YPPWDDIR)/passwd-nis
SHADOW      = $(YPPWDDIR)/shadow-nis

and everything went fine !!
(well after also a modification for auto.master (linux) / auto_master
(sun) )

thanks a lot !

Solaris 10 support md5... I would think it would work there.

But yes.. for potable NIS you need to use DES passwords.

Will this work the next time a user from the Sun host tries to update
his password via NIS?  I think he won't be able to update his password.

- Scott