rpc.nispasswdd and NT clients
>I am trying to implement password-synchronisation between 2.5.1 boxes
>running NIS+ and NT clients using Hummingbird NFS Maestro v6.
>The problem I have is that when the user changes her password from the
>NT desktop the Solaris _login_ password is changed, but the user's
>_credentials_ are not updated, so the next time (s)he logs in
>she gets the good old 'unix.225.<domain>.. credentials do not match'
>type of warning when login tries to keylogin.
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Thanks to Mark Bergman <bergman@hercules.PHRI.NYU.EDU>
and Christian Lotz <lotz@suk.net>
Basically the consensus was that it is not possible, since the NT client
is unauthenticated, and you can't change your NIS+ credentials from
an unauthenticated source.
However it was suggested to write a replacement password-changing
program which does all the necessary stuff, updating the credentials,
etc. This I will look into, as a challenge for my nascent PERL
skills.
Incidentally, in my travels I also found some other nice sites for
NT-and-NIS (_not_ NIS+) integration tools:
Password sync-er program :
http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/psynch/
The internationally-acclaimed NISGINA suite:
http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~williams/
Many thanks again to the internationally-acclaimed sun-managers list,
Robin
1996 XR600R
