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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+)
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Preface

Part I About Naming and Directory Services

1.  Name Service Switch

Part II NIS+ Setup and Configuration

2.  NIS+: An Introduction

3.  NIS+ Setup Scripts

4.  Configuring NIS+ With Scripts

5.  Setting Up the NIS+ Root Domain

6.  Configuring NIS+ Clients

7.  Configuring NIS+ Servers

8.  Configuring an NIS+ Non-Root Domain

9.  Setting Up NIS+ Tables

Part III NIS+ Administration

10.  NIS+ Tables and Information

11.  NIS+ Security Overview

12.  Administering NIS+ Credentials

13.  Administering NIS+ Keys

NIS+ Keys

Keylogin With NIS+

Changing Keys for an NIS+ Principal

Changing the NIS+ Keys

Changing NIS+ Root Keys From Root

Changing Root Keys From Another NIS+ Machine

Changing the Keys of an NIS+ Root Replica From the Replica

Changing the Keys of an NIS+ Non-Root Server

Updating Public Keys for NIS+

nisupdkeys Command

Updating Public Keys Arguments and Examples in NIS+

Updating IP Addresses in NIS+

Updating NIS+ Client Key Information

Globally Updating NIS+ Client Key Information

How to Update Client Key Information

14.  Administering Enhanced NIS+ Security Credentials

15.  Administering NIS+ Access Rights

16.  Administering NIS+ Passwords

17.  Administering NIS+ Groups

18.  Administering NIS+ Directories

19.  Administering NIS+ Tables

20.  NIS+ Server Use Customization

21.  NIS+ Backup and Restore

22.  Removing NIS+

23.  Information in NIS+ Tables

24.  NIS+ Troubleshooting

A.  NIS+ Error Messages

About NIS+ Error Messages

Common NIS+ Namespace Error Messages

B.  Updates to NIS+ During the Solaris 10 Release

Solaris 10 and NIS+

Glossary

Index

Keylogin With NIS+

When a principal logs in, the login process prompts for a password. That password is used to pass the user through the login security gate and give the user access to the network. The login process also decrypts the user's private key stored in the user's home domain cred table and passes that private key to the keyserver. The keyserver then uses that decrypted private key to authenticate the user each time the user accesses an NIS+ object.

Normally, this is the only time the principal is asked to provide a password. However, if the principal's private key in the cred table was encrypted with a password that was different from the user's login password, login cannot decrypt it using the login password at login time, and thus cannot provide a decrypted private key to the keyserver. (This most often occurs when a user's private key in the cred table was encrypted with a Secure RPC password different from the user's login password.)


Note - In this context, network password is sometimes used as a synonym for Secure RPC password.


To temporarily remedy this problem, the principal must perform a keylogin, using the keylogin command, after every login. (The -r flag is used to keylogin the superuser principal and to store the superuser's key in /etc/.rootkey on a host.)

For a principal user

keylogin

For a principal machine (only once)

keylogin -r

Note, however, that performing an explicit keylogin with the original password provides only a temporary solution good for the current login session only. The private key in the cred table is still encrypted with a password different than the user's login password so the next time the user logs in the problem will reoccur. To permanently solve this problem, the user must run chkey to change the password used to encrypt the private key to the user's login password (see Changing Keys for an NIS+ Principal).