My original posting asked about the possiblity of running a secure NIS or
NIS+ across Sun (either Solaris or SunOS) and Alpha systems running DEC
UNIX.
Simon Greaves very kindly contributed from his prior experience in
researching this issue which can be summarised in word...
NO:-(
You can't do it because Sun isn't porting NIS+ to other platforms, and the
two secure NIS variants will not interoperate.
However Simon offered:
>One thought, have you looked at DECathena? it is intended to be a workstation
>management environment which supports DECalpha and Ultrix, Sun, IBM and PC's.
>Whilst the management functionality is ok, one nice area is security, it uses
>Kerberos for passwords (no clear text on wire) and also kerberised NFS which
>alleviates the poor NFS authentication problem. Name services are distributed
>using hesiod/bind, and of course you can run yp for less 'sensitive'
>information.
>Simon Greaves
>>censjg_at_caledonia.hw.ac.uk
>>DDI: +44 (0)131 451 3265 Fax: +44 (0)131 451 3261
That is what I am looking into at present, and it looks like a reasonable
chance of working out. Thanks again.
Thanks to these folks who confirmed my fears that Sun has almost no porting
plans for NIS+, and that NIS+ in NIS compatiblity mode is problematical
used cross-platforms...
>David Warren INTERNET: warren_at_atmos.washington.edu
>(206) 543-0945 Fax: (206) 543-0308
>Becki Kain <beckers_at_eecs.umich.edu>
David also suggested Kerboros, but I really need the full capabilities of a
DECathena full implementation.
Thanks Again,
Marc Mason
Received on Thu Sep 07 1995 - 00:10:30 NZST