Re: [netatalk-admins] NIS authentication


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] NIS authentication
From: Andrew Solmssen (solmssen@ca.metsci.com)
Date: Mon Nov 17 1997 - 17:03:09 EST


I have this working just fine on a Red Hat 4.2 server. I compiled 1.4b2
locally with the NISified libc (NYS?) and it all just works...

---- Andrew

On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Matt Isleb wrote:

>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Ben Payne wrote:
>
> > it was always my understanding that netatalk either used libc or pam to do
> > all authentication (depending on compile options) and since both support
> > NIS this shouldn't be a problem. Please let me know if I'm wrong, since I
> > will be doing the same soon.
> >
> > -> Ben Payne
>
> It doesn't use PAM, that is for sure. Well the distributed one
> doesn't anyway. There is a redhat rpm version that is hacked to use PAM.
> You can find at your favorite redhat/contrib/i386/RPMS directory structure.
>
> I have NIS and as far as I can tell, users that
> exist via NIS can't login to the netatalk server. I may have done
> somethign wrong tho.
>
> Matt
>
>
>
>



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