Subject: Re: [NetBSD] NIS secure maps and password cipher
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Soren Jacobsen <soren@blef.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/21/2003 23:10:45
On 07/21 17:19, Fonz wrote:
> For another thing, I'd like my NetBSD machines to be NIS clients to a
> server running OpenBSD. As such, the NIS passwords are encrypted with
> Blowfish rather than MD5. Is there an easy way to tell NetBSD to use
> Blowfish for password encryption?
You can change cipher used for NIS in /etc/passwd.conf, but blowfish is
only supported in -current. Could you have the OpenBSD box use MD5?