Hello listmates, I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to anything but NIS thus far. See here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/ http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for authentication? Thanks. Boris. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101001/7f0e1ad0/attachment-0002.html>
On 2/10/10 4:27 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:> Hello listmates, > > I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to > anything but NIS thus far. See here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/ > > http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html > > Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for > authentication?Solaris still favours it, but mainly because Sun invented it. Most of the rest of us don't bother. I certainly haven't seen it anywhere except exclusively SunOS/Solaris based networks for ages. Regards, Ben -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101002/ebf39212/attachment-0002.sig>
On Oct 1, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote:> On 2/10/10 4:27 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> Hello listmates, >> >> I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to >> anything but NIS thus far. See here: >> >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/ >> >> http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html >> >> Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for >> authentication? > > Solaris still favours it, but mainly because Sun invented it. Most of > the rest of us don't bother. I certainly haven't seen it anywhere > except exclusively SunOS/Solaris based networks for ages. > > > Regards, > Ben > >We still use it quite extensively, across 100 or so Linux, Solaris, and SunOS boxes. Since we still have to maintain and support some very expensive industrial equipment that use SunOS, I'd hate to see it go away. Take Care, Don
Boris Epstein wrote:> Hello listmates, > > I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to > anything but NIS thus far. See here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/ > > http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html > > Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for > authentication?I have no problems as a NIS user using sftp to a CentOS 5 box running OpenSSH 5.x This isn't really a CentOS issue - as CentOS ships with OpenSSH v4.x I suggest you download the vanilla OpenSSH 5.x source and build and install it on a host that has NIS accounts and test it. James Pearson
On 10/1/10 2:27 PM, "Boris Epstein" <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello listmates, > > I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to > anything but NIS thus far. See here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for > -nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/ > > http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html > > Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for > authentication?We use it for our mixed environment of Solaris and Linux (including CentOS) workstations. 100-150 machines, 600-700 users. --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn at wright.edu RSS: http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/MikeVanHorn'sNewsFeed.xml http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/
Hi there -- We use NIS on our site which is a mixture of HP-UX and Linux systems. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ben McGinnes Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:50 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS? On 2/10/10 4:27 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:> Hello listmates, > > I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to > anything but NIS thus far. See here: > >http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-n is-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/> > http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html > > Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for > authentication?Solaris still favours it, but mainly because Sun invented it. Most of the rest of us don't bother. I certainly haven't seen it anywhere except exclusively SunOS/Solaris based networks for ages. Regards, Ben The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:> Hello listmates, > > I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to anything but NIS thus far. See here: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/ > > http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html > > Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for authentication?I have setup NIS where a winbind box builds NIS maps of Windows users without passwords of course and then the NIS clients use those maps coupled with Kerberos for authentication which worked well. If the winbind service crashed or locked up there were still the maps to use until it was fixed, so better uptime then winbind alone. Even without AD one could setup a Kerberos server and NIS database a lot easier then LDAP. -Ross -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101001/6f0e3c0b/attachment-0002.html>