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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet3!root From: root@buffnet.net (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: strange NIS/YP problem Date: 30 Aug 1995 17:27:36 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 28 Message-ID: <422728$f92@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <41ug57$1ft@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <41v8nt$h9t@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet3.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bill Paul (wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu) wrote: : Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, : Superuser (root@buffnet.net) had the courage to say: : : I set up a freebsd to act as a nis client of an SCO machine. : I didn't know SCO had NIS... learn something new every day, I guess. SCO has a lot to be desired to be exact. [deletia] : : Im really stumped = One thing I note from the ypmatch userid passwd is : : that SCO sticks some junk at the end of the password field - a ,..DI or : : something close to that. : Well, lookit: FreeBSD doesn't know about that 'extra junk'. It expects : encrypted DES passwords to be 13 characters long (11 characters of : cipherjunk plus two characters of salt). If SCO's passwords are 13 characters : plus some stuff appended to the end, then you'll simply never get a : match. I finally added a line of code in login.c to ensure it truncs the 13 chars. Its working now.