Subject: Re: We love DHX. As for Samba...
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 21:19:47 EDT
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Marc Miller wrote:
> We use NIS for most of our password validation, so we've been very pleased
> with the availability of DHX login encryption. Now, I know this is a bit
> off-topic, but I wasn't sure if the SMB folks would even know what DHX
> was. Is there a way to have the password encrypted during transmission to
> be compared to the NIS database? (I'm told it would be a relatively
> simple matter if our passwords were in the /etc/passwd file)
I'm not sure what you are asking here exactly...
If you are asking if you can DHX encrypted mac logins with NIS, then the
answer is yes. The DHX module should use regular getXXbyYY calls, which
will include NIS information. This works with PAM as well.
Andy
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