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

[Chris Cox]

Solution (it's a BAD one... but this is what you have to do):

Change /etc/pam.d/system-auth

password    sufficient    pam_unix.so md5 shadow nis nullok
try_first_pass use_authtok

Remove the md5 option to pam_unix.so

Sigh.... not loving Red Hat AT ALL right now.


On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:14 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> 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....
> 
> 
> 
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