NIS server on FC6, client on FC9 - different crypt?

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After about 2 hours of not understanding why I can't login on an NIS client, I broke down and did some really simple tests.

I went to the server and changed the login's Full Name. Do my make in /var/yp and wala... the NIS client sees the change in full name, but I still cannot authenticate.

It looks like I can't authenticate any password other than a blank one.

The only explanation I can come up with is that the FC9 client is encrypting the password in a different format that the FC6 system?

I know the yp portion is working. I change the password to blank, do a make and whala - I can login on the client. Change the Full name on the server, do a make, I see it on the client. Add a password - can no longer authenticate - not even using su.

Questions: I see FC9 lets me specify encryption - what type does FC6 use? I can't fid that info.

Any other ideas? Surely someone is running a FC6 NIS server with a FC9 client?

Paul

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Well, I am learning about pam.d. It looks like the FC6 uses MD5 encrption, so I used the gui tool to change my FC9 client to use this as well. Still no go. I am getting updates from NIS, but my users still refused to authenticate unless the password is blank.

Anyone? Please - this is driving me crazy. Evolution now seems mad that my passwd is blank, it keeps asking me for a password for some keyring file.... weird.

Paul

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I'm good. I ran make again on the server, after changing the clients pam to MD5 and it worked. I don't understand why pushing again makes a difference as the server encryption did not change, but after all this time, I'm not looking in any horses mouths.