Hello listmates.
It appears that in order to authenticate a Mac OS X Lion client via NIS the passwords in passwd and passwd.byname maps need to be MD5 encrypted. How do I see what encryption has been used in my maps? How do I change it?
Thanks.
Boris.
Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates.
It appears that in order to authenticate a Mac OS X Lion client via NIS the passwords in passwd and passwd.byname maps need to be MD5 encrypted. How do I see what encryption has been used in my maps? How do I change it?
I think it is the case that Lion only supports DES password hashes in NIS passwd maps - see the thread at:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16772720#16772720
i.e. they only support the standard crypt() password hashes - which is a regression from previous versions of MacOS X - MacOS 10.6 supports MD5 NIS password hashes ...
James Pearson
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