Hello Debian World,
I have a small problem with Debian NIS authentication. Mainly, I have NIS
server running on a Mandriva Linux machine and I want to configure a Debian
machine to be a client for this NIS server.
The Debian client receives the 'passwd' table correctly and I am able to
check
it with the 'ypcat' command. However, users can not login with their
passwords
at all (I made sure that I have the correct +:::: records added to the end
of
/etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group).
Tracking down the problem, I tried to create a user on the Debian machine
and
its /etc/shadow record to the NIS server. The user was able to login
correctly.
I believe there are two problem with this mixing:
1 - Debian password hashing/shadowing algorithm is different from the one
used
by the NIS server on the old Mandriva server.
2 - The normal user UID range for Debian is >= 1000, where the old Mandriva
server uses >= 500.
Unfortunately, I need to find a work around to adjust Debian password coding
and acceptable normal user UID range so that it can work with the old
Mandriva
Server as I am not allowed to proceed with server OS replacement at the
current
time.
I highly appreciate your support and suggestions.
-Bichoy
