Ian Mortimer wrote:

> Configure the clients to use md5 passwords using authconfig. The next
> users changes their password the passwd command will md5 encrypt it.
> Once all the users have changed their passwords you'll have all md5
> passwords. If you configure the server to generate md5 passwords,
> yppasswd will work the same.

I ran

authconfig --enablemd5 --update

on the yp server and restarted yppasswd. Running "yppasswd testusr" as root
(on the server) didn't update the password with a MD5 password in the NIS
password file, but put in a normal DES password.

Adding MD5 passwords by hand into the NIS password source seems to work, but
I can't persuade yppasswd to update the NIS database with a MD5 password.

Maybe it's time to look into LDAP (if I get a spare few weeks...)...

Jeremy

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Jeremy Sanders <jss@(protected)/
X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK.
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