Feature Request: NIS support
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Thu Jul 13 19:54:22 GMT 2000
Nils Lohner wrote:
>
> Hmmm... then something's misconfigured I think... or
> I didn't try something I thought I had. Maybe I
> already had the user in smbpass which prevented his
> real passwd from working? I looked through the docs
> (and FAQ) but couldn't find anything.
>
> I have the users in /u/* and the /etc/passwd file has
> the NIS maps working properly (i.e. I can log in fine,
> see the dir, automount works etc.) Any particular place
> I need to look in the .conf file or docs to see what
> I'm missing?
>
> Sorry, but I couldn't find this in the docs. More
> pointers would be much appreciated...
>
> Thanks, Nils.
I think you probably have "encrypt passwords = yes" in smb.conf.
Due to the incompatible hashing algorithims used in LanMan/NT
hashes and the standard UNIX crypt() (uses DES encryption)
function, you cannot use MS CHAP auathentication and validate
against NIS.
Cheers,
jerry
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