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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!csl.sri.com!news!gilham From: gilham@lily.csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NIS with SUNOS4.1.3 Date: 11 Sep 1995 16:19:57 GMT Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International Lines: 12 Message-ID: <GILHAM.95Sep11091957@lily.csl.sri.com> References: <42qgn6$e2m@gryphon.phoenix.net> <42r1vo$3j2@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csl.sri.com In-reply-to: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu's message of 9 Sep 1995 03:34:16 GMT Something that wasn't mentioned in Bill Paul's post: The default password encryption on FreeBSD is md5. To use NIS with Suns, you have to install the DES package. Having done both this and what Bill Paul says to do, I find that everything works fine. -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com ``The Macintosh, of course, is not programmable.'' --UCB Logo manual