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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NIS yppasswd table from Sun to FreeBSD Date: 31 May 1996 18:01:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4onc4v$df@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4p66rf$poc@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E edwinm@il.ft.hse.nl (Edwin Mons) wrote: > My question was if I could use the NIS maps, and esp. the yppasswd map, > I already use on my Sun workstations with FreeBSD. My guess is that > that the encrypted passwords are incompatible, though I do not know this > for sure. You can install the DES compatibility package. This will downgrade your password encryption from the original MD5 to the DES algorithm. Make sure to _not_ get the `des' distribution from any server in the US. Alas, ftp.internat.freebsd.org doesn't have the best line to the outside world, you could try some other European servers first. (I'm not sure which of the ftp*.de.freebsd.org servers does have a `des' distribution readily available. If all else fails, drop me a mail and i will see to compile one and get it up on one of these servers.) And yes, NIS is available. However, don't ask me for the setup, i've never been using it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)