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Norbert Kasperczyk-Borgmann |
Fachhochschule Hamburg |
Fachbereich E/I, Softwarelabor | This space is
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Hi Alpha OSF-Managers,
last week I wrote:
>Is there a way to use the NIS (formaly YP) password for Pathworks too?
>
>We read a lot of documentation and tried a lot.
>But we have the feeling that there is no way to use the NIS passwords for
>Pathworks too;
>Because we have a network with Workstation's and PC's our need is *ONE*
>password for both.
>
>Is there someone out who have a solution for this problem (if there any)?
>
>Any help is appreciated
>
> We have DEC OSF/1 V3.2A (Rev. 17), on a DEC 3000 600
> Pathworks has the Version 5.0F
>
I got two answers (I think Pathworks for OSF1 isn't so much in use)
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1) From john_at_zyqad.co.uk Thu Sep 21 12:47:01 1995
As far as I know you can't use the standard UNIX passwd or NIS passwd for
PathWorks. PW seems to want to keep a separate set of passwords so users who
work both on the server directly and through a PC have to either keep both
passwords in-line or remember 2 different ones. A big pain in the ***. At
least that was my experience when we used PW. We have since ditched PW and just
use samba a public domain package that allows the mapping of server drives from
PCs but not vice versa. It can also handle printers but I haven't had to do
that. Samba uses the UNIX passwd file and I think works with NIS.
Personally I would suggest you ditch PW but you may have very good reasons to
want to keep PW.
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2) From: I lost the address
Pathworks for Ultrix use NIS passwords
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It seems there is no quick solution to my Problem. I'll try samba and perhaps make the
switch to it.
Thanks
Norbert
Received on Wed Sep 27 1995 - 16:59:25 NZST