Trusted Mode, NIS and crypt SUN interop question

[Chris Greengrass]

Can a Trusted Mode HP-UX system be configured to use crypt rather than bigcrypt?

The reason for the question is interop of NIS clients running on Sun Solaris 8/9 with NIS.

Alternatively, is there an easy way to get interop between the systems by some other way?

[Pete Randall]

Chris,

If I recall correctly, trusted systems and NIS do not work together - you would have to be using NIS+ in order to have a trusted system use NIS.


Pete

[Chris Greengrass]

Thanks, Your right the route would be to go to NIS+, However NIS is not going to be upgraded quickly here so was looking for route to enable Trusted Mode to be compatible with SUN platforms using NIS.

Probably a non starter, but thought I would ask?

[Sundar_7]

Chris,

As noted above by Pete, you cannot have both trusted system and NIS running at the same time.

But it is beyond my comprehension why do you think trusted systems should use crypt :-)

The only difference I am aware of is the password length the crypt() and bigcrypt() takes in as input.

crypt() can only take in 8 characters where bigcrypt() can take in more than 8 characters.

If you are running NIS (On a untrusted system), there should be no interop problems with Sun clients.

- Sundar

[Sundar_7]

I do believe there is a compatibility mode in NIS+ you can enable that will allow NIS+ clients to interop with NIS server. Not sure though...

[Chris Greengrass]

Agree was looking at trying to get the benefits of Trusted Mode on HP boxes. However NIS is stopping that route. Need NIS to compatiblity with SUN boxes running NIS clients. Hoped there might be a workaround!