In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jens B. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I also tried to set up shadow passwords with NIS and couldn't get it to work.
>I downloaded the libc source and could see that shadow passwords aren't
>implemented with regular NIS.
They are on a libc6 system (hamm)..
>It really isn't too surprising though since
>with regular NIS, it's easy for any machine on the network to get whatever
>maps it wants, therefore having "shadow" map doesn't really do you any good.
With the libc6 NIS server, you need to be root to get at the shadow files.
>Watch for this feature when NIS+ is supported (which supports
>authentication).
True.
Mike.
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