Again following up on my own posts, sigh: On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 03:22:58PM +0200, Nils Rennebarth wrote: > Next problem: The net nis master runs slink. A slink client works after > shadow has been configured and +:::::::: added to /etc/shadow. > A client runs partly potato, and does not work, i.e. it won't accept nis > passwords. NIS itself appears to work, i.e. I can see the right owners of > directories, the homedirs are right, etc. Any known incompatibilities > between glibc2.1 and shadow nis? Hrmm, deinstalling nis and installing it again worked. This is getting Windows like, except that reboots are not necessary. What should I do however for clients that do not have shadow passwords? Is there a way to give them a "made up" password file with entries from real passwd and shadow mixed? (security reasons aside) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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