Shawn Fertch <fertch at mninter.net> wrote: > > Anyone familiar enough with NIS on this? > > At work we have varying *nix platforms: > > Solaris (2.4, 2.6, 8) > HP-UX to 11 > AIX 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 some older versions well I believe > Tru64 4.0D, 4.0F, 5.1 > Linux > SCO > A few others I'm certain of > > Will NIS work cross platfoms, as well as being able to exclude certain > servers to which the person shouldn't have access to? Someone was > looking into it months ago, and said that it would not work because of the > various *nix platforms we run. I would think it'd work, but you have to be somewhat wary about the data that gets transferred.. One big problem these days is that Linux uses more complex password hashes than most other Unix variants (save for the *BSDs). You'll probably have to go to the least common denominator and use standard crypt()ed passwords. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ 2400 bps used to seem so / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ fast \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010918/2339e6f6/attachment.pgp