[Macpartners] MacOS 10.3 and YP Authentication

[Matthew Walburn]

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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