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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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nisauthconf — Configure NIS+ Security

Synopsis

/usr/lib/nis/nisauthconf [-v][mechanism,...]

Description

Use the nisauthconf command to control which authentication flavors NIS+ should use when communicating with other NIS+ clients and servers. If the command is not executed, then NIS+ defaults to AUTH_DES when running security level 2. See rpc.nisd(1M).

nisauthconf takes a list of authentication mechanism's in order of preference. An authentication mechanism can use one or more authentication flavors listed below. If des is the only specified mechanism, then NIS+ can use AUTH_DES only with other NIS+ clients and servers. If des is the first mechanism, then other authentication mechanisms after des are ignored by NIS+, except for nisaddcred ...

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