[Freeipa-users] EXTERNAL: Re: NIS Compat Password Issues

[Joseph, Matthew (EXP)]

Hey Rob,

The passwd section of nsswitch.conf is the following;

Passwd: files nis

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Crittenden [mailto:rcritten at redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 3:05 PM
To: Joseph, Matthew (EXP); freeipa-users at redhat.com
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Freeipa-users] NIS Compat Password Issues

Joseph, Matthew (EXP) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've having issues with trying to login to our NIS clients that are 
> looking at IPA as a "NIS" Server.
>
> The NIS Client can view all of the usernames when I do a ypcat passwd 
> but when I try to login a with a user account it will not accept the 
> password. I've even tried setting it as simple as Password123 and 
> still nothing.
>
> I don't see anything NIS related in the error logs on the IPA server.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction for this?

What does your nsswitch.conf look like?

Note that IPA does not provide the shadow map (because it sends hashes in the clear).

rob