Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2008 4:37 PM, John Summerfield <debian@(protected):
>> Jeremy Sanders wrote:
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to change an existing NIS server from using DES-style
>>> passwords to MD5 passwords? Is it possible to continue running with both
>>> types of passwords, asking users to upgrade as they are ready?
>>>
>>> I've tried running
>>>
>>> authconfig --enablemd5
>>>
>>> on the server and client, but this didn't seem to help very much.
>> It's years since I used NIS or changed passwords format, but I think it
>> should just work. The two forms of password I used are distinguishable
>> by eyeball, so mixing them was fine.
>>
>> What form do new passwords take?
>>
>
> If the clients and servers are RHEL then MD5 should work. If the
> clients are other OS's.. it can depend. Solaris does not support MD5
> in all of its releases etc. I guess we need more info on what Jeremy
> means by doesnt work.

If Solaris validates against RHEL, wouldn't the question be:

DOES USER user PASSWORD password authenticate?
user and password are as provided by the user, the server encrypts and
check against local storage.




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Cheers
John

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