[Freeipa-users] MD5 passwords in NIS

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 11:11 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hello listmates,
> 
> 
> Apparently, in order to authenticate a Mac OS X Lion client to NIS one
> needs passwords encrypted in MD5 hash shown in the passwd and
> passwd.byname maps. FreeIPA at this point only shows a "*". Is there a
> way to change that?

No, we decided that one of the rules with FreeIPA was to never expose
hashes to clients. Same reason why we do not export a shadow map for
example.

With Mac OS X you should be better off using just LDAP auth.
> 
> Thanks and Happy New Year!

Same!

Simo.

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