Although I never configured it myself, my office has all of the Unix\'s you mentioned running on the same NIS/NFS system. On 09-18-2001 04:22 pm, you wrote: > 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 ] > >