Red Hat 5.2 NIS / Solaris 7 question

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

It can certainly NIS-Serv /etc/passwd. I don't know if it can
NIS-Serv /etc/shadow.  That would be a major security hole.

-derek

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> 
> 
> Want to know if Red Hat 5.2 can NIS serve the passwd and shadow password
> so that a Sun Solaris 7 box can get user authentification.  If so where 
> can information on how to do this be found?
> 
> In other works Linux is the master and Solaris is the client.
> 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix
> http://www.blu.org
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