On 10/01/08 08:23, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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.

Not with NIS - AFAI this just serves the shadow "map" back to the
(Solaris) client and lets it decide locally whether the has matches the
password.
Of course, Solaris has PAM, and PAM allows to delegate this kind of
decision to a server. But standard pam_unix will consult the "local"
shadow file of NIS map.

Best regards
jan

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