Thanks for info. The NIS client is now authenticating with passwords longer than 8 characters, after the change over from pam_unix.so to pam_pwdb.so Without that, passwords truncated to 8 characters are also permitted. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Michael Tokarev [mailto:mjt@tls.msk.ru] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:39 PM To: pam-list@redhat.com; Taylor, ForrestX Cc: Peter Chiu (E-mail) Subject: Re: NIS client not authenticating under RH 7.2 "Taylor, ForrestX" wrote: > > I couldn't either until I found this bug report in bugzilla: > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55011 > > To quote: > > After suggestions by a friend that 'pam_unix.so' was now deprecated I > changed in the file /etc/pam.d/system-auth: > > auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok > > to > > auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so likeauth nullok Hmmm.... That's not pam_unix that is deprecated, but just the *opposite* -- it is pam_pwdb that deprecated... This issue is due to bug in pam_unix (fix provided in bugzilla), NOT because of false deprecation of pam_unix. Regards, Michael.
