Re: NIS and shadow passwords

Posted in 1997

Chao Y. Din — Wed, 03 Sep 1997 20:49:19 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

NIS and NIS+ on Solaris work. They do not blow the security away. Chao Y. Din Mike Segel wrote: > Ti Lian Hwang wrote: > > > > Does anyone know whether Informix 5.03 and Informix 7.22 supports > > NIS and shadow passwords running on a HP-UX 10.10 ? > > > > What about connectivity from I-Star and I-Connect ? > > > > We tried it and it does not seem to. > > > > Rgds > > > > Ti Lian Hwang > > tilh@sin-co.sg.dhl.com > > Well, the shadow passwords are *supported* since Informix just makes > system calls for verification. AIX, Solaris, HPUX, etc ... > > However NIS kinda blows the security away. > Can you say ypcat ? :-) > (Although that is supposed to be fixed in NIS+ right?)