On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:51:38AM -0500, Jay Kline wrote: > I am not sure their method of "shadowing" passwords would be compatible with > Linux. Though it would be an intersting experiment. But I have always been > told when doing NIS, shadow is bad. Not sure if there was a technical > reason, or just methodology. Shadow isn't bad at all. If you can do it, do it. For example, we have an NIS domain consisting entirely of Linux boxen, and we use a shadow map there. If you want NIS across platforms, especially commercial UNIX, forget about it. Gabe -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------