Re: nis client and shadow passwords

[theo borm <theo_nbusr%borm.org@localhost>]

Dear Uwe,

My nsswitch.conf file contained:

group: compat
group_compat: nis
hosts: files dns
netgroup: files [notfound=return] nis
networks: files
passwd: compat
passwd_compat: nis

Your suggested changes produce exactly the same result: With a DES 
password in the non-shadow password file on the NIS server the user can 
log-in, and without the user can't.

I see no mention of shadow password files in the NetBSD nsswitch.conf 
manual page (nor any other yp docs that I have looked at).

The Linux manual suggests that the "shadow" database can be used in 
nsswitch.conf. Adding "shadow: compat" OR "shadow: files nis" to 
nsswitch.conf doesn't change a thing, however.

So, I'm affraid we're on the wrong track here.

with kind regards,

Theo







Uwe Klaus wrote:
> > How can I force NetBSD to take passwords from the shadow file, and 
> > other account details (uid,gid, shell) from the non-shadow password 
> > file?
>
> > Communications with the server do not seem to be a problem, as I can 
> > ypcat passwd.byname and shadow.byname, and yptest returns no errors 
> > from NetBSD. If I replace the 'x' in the non-shadow password file 
> > with the DES hash of the users' password, the user can log-in to the 
> > NetBSD box.
> check man nsswitch.conf
>
> /etc/nsswitch.conf should contain
> group: files nis
> group_compat: nis
> passwd: files nis
> passwd_compat: nis
>
> Best Regards,
> Uwe