[NTLUG:Discuss] Red Hat as a NIS client help!

[Chris Cox]

I usually don't ask for help.. but right not Red Hat is NOT making me
very happy.  Looks Red Hat (our way or the highway... ) has decided that
when connected to NIS it ALWAYS jams a MD5 hash when you do a passwd
change.  Note, all does work correctly with yppasswd and on smarter *ix
hosts, they at least force you to use yppasswd with passwd is
fundamentally broken... but not Red Hat... no... ... anyway, for all you
Red Hat/CentOS fans... please tell me if this can be worked around.
Right now, as it stands, I'd say NEVER use Red Hat as a NIS client (and
I"m sure Red Hat would agree since they don't want you to USE their box
with anything BUT other Red Hat boxen... argh!!!!).

And PLEASE don't tell me how smart the Red Hat guys are... it just
doesn't show.

I'm sorry I'm so upset about this.. it's just SO stupid. Sheesh.  I even
saw a thread where somebody asked Red Hat to support blowfish as an
optional crypt... Red Hat said no... weird....