Re: What kind of user authentication / password encryption am I using?

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On February 7, 2004 08:19 am, Ken Rossman wrote:
> I have managed to inherit a rather broken Linux/Solaris environment,
> and am
> trying to determine a few things.
>
> First, where do I look on a Linux machine to determine what type of
> password
> encryption it is using?
>
> Secondly, I am hoping to make the NIS environment on the Linux side be
> the
> NIS environment for all Linux *and* Solaris machines.  I am having some
> trouble doing this, however, and suspect the password encryption method
> may be mismatched between the two types of systems.  For example, root
> ssh
> does not work between Linux and Solaris (and please, no comments about
> how insecure this might be, allowing remote root logins, even by ssh --
> not my call here).
>
> Comments?  Suggestions?
>
> Tnx,
> K


Hi Ken,
For the encrytion method have a look at 'man authconfig' and 
/etc/sysconfig/authconfig

I deal with a mix of Solaris and Linux at work. Prior to getting OpenSSH on 
the Solaris boxes, they ran the commersial sshd. In order to communicate I 
needed to install the commercial ssh client on my workstation (I then used 2 
scripts (or aliases?) to launch ssh depending on the remote server os.

I was also told, but never tried, if your having scp problems between them 
(maybe ssh?) then try -C to turn compression off (?) (i looked at the man 
page for that option but it wasn't to clear at first reading)

If this is not the problem/solution, can you post the details of what your 
doing (exact command you run), errors you get when it fails, versions of ssh 
on each system, errors in messages or security logs....

-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce


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