[Macpartners] MacOS 10.3 and YP Authentication

[vanni]

Matthew Walburn <matt at math.mit.edu> writes:

Nope, things were working fine and still are under 10.2.x
It sounds like a bad strategy from Apple. I am not about advise
people with various back-ends to switch to Xserves :-)

Popping one level, the real reason why I posted to this list was in
the hope that someone had solved it already, so that we did not have
to re-invent the wheel.

Clearly we will keep 10.2.3 as a "Test OS" till it can be 
easily plugged into an existing NIS back-ends.

cheers !!

-vanni


> I believe that NIS/YP authentication from the login window was broken
> in 10.2.x as well. I had it working for 10.1 but AFAIK after that it's
> been non-functional. Doesn't seem to be a very high priority to Apple
> either... NetInfo and LDAP is better for selling XServes I suppose.
> 
> -Matthew
> --
> Matthew Walburn, RHCE
> Network Assistant - x. 3-4995
> MIT Department of Mathematics
> 
> On Feb 5, 2004, at 3:35 PM, vanni wrote:
> 
> >
> > It seems like the Authentication mechanism changed on on 10.3
> > and "YP authentication" (from the Login Window) is now broken.
> >
> > Has anyone encountered and solved this ??
> >
> > thanks in advance !!
> >
> > -vanni
> >
> >
> > PS -- (Technical Details)
> >
> > On OS 10.2 one could quickly setup a new Mac OS X (10.2) machines
> > as a YP client to a YP server (running on a UNIX machine
> > (solari, Linux, etc))
> >
> >
> > On OS 10.3 this no longer works .... however, the following still
> > works.
> >         ssh          ... to the 10.3 machine
> >         ypcat passwd ... on the "     "
> >         automount, etc
> >
> > i.e.  YP still works and the lower level (UNIX) login (authentication
> > at the SHELL level) mechanism still works.  It's the authentication
> > at the
> > "login window" that is no longer working.
> >
> > Yes, I belive that we have clicked the right buttons
> > from "Directory access".
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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