Here's another piece of info that might help:
We got this program that will authenticate NFS shares through NIS on a Windows machine. So I'm running NIS v2.0 (YP services, not NIS+), despite the various security flaws... As we all know, Windows machines don't support MD5 encryption, only DES, so I had to disable MD5 authorization in the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file. It worked under 6.2, but could doing so have created this problem, since it changes Linux's method of authentication from MD5 encryption back down to DES? I didn't change my passwords after altering the aforementioned PAM configuration file.
By the way, I don't recommend that any of you EVER do this. I'm not running this server as a production machine, just as a testing platform. |
