[Freeipa-users] Integrating with NIS Domains and Netgroups

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Tue Nov 18 22:17:46 UTC 2014


On 11/18/2014 02:13 AM, Zhong Qiang wrote:
> hi,
>     I have some hosts installed centos4.8/6.5/5.9,and want to 
> centralize identity/policy/authorization.but ipa client isn't 
> compatible with centos4.8,so I try to configure FreeIPA integrated 
> with NIS Domains.
>      IPAserver:centos7 (+DNS)
>      nisclient:centos4.8
>       ipaclient:centos6.6
>
>      I followed the instructions of this page: 
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Linux_Domain_Identity_Authentication_and_Policy_Guide/nis.html,to 
> add netgroup(nis_test) and users(zhongq).then configured nis client 
> installed centos4.8.on the nis client, I could get users data ,look 
> like that:
>
> [root at nisclient ~]# getent passwd zhongq
> zhongq:*:724800001:724800001:强 é:/home/zhongq:/bin/sh
>
>
> However,I do not succeed to log into nisclient with zhongq account.
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> zhongq
>
>
You need to use some other method for authentication. NIS only supported 
for identity not for authentication. Use pam_ldap or pam_krb5 for 
authentication part.

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.

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