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[rhelv5-list] Re: NIS and MD5

Jeremy Sanders

2008-01-10

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Jeremy Sanders wrote:

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.

Okay - I've worked it out. It only uses an md5 password if the existing user
has an md5 password. ypasswd works for users with md5 passwords.

Jeremy

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