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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