Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] NIS and Netatalk
From: Palle Girgensohn (girgen@partitur.se)
Date: Tue Feb 23 1999 - 10:00:47 EST
Well, netatalk (normally) authenticates against the unix password
mechanism. If this is NIS or just plain /etc/passwd, netatalk won't know
the difference. I have all users in NIS, and the afp server is a nis
client. If you don't wan't the users to be able to log in in other
fashions than afp, add them to a NIS netgroup and add that netgroup to
/etc/passwd on the afp server as
+@macusers::::::::/sbin/nologin
That way, they cannot get a shell on the afp server, but can be logged
in with afp.
Another way would be to authenticate directly with the NIS server. It
can probably be done, but I am clueless to how.
/Palle
ian reinhart geiser wrote:
>
> is it possible to get Netatalk to use a NIS to authenticate a user.
> we have a central NIS server and i was hopping that i could just let
> users use there usernames and passwords on that server instead of
> creating new accounts.
>
> -ian reinhart geiser
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