05-04-2017
It is quite some time that I dealt with Solaris 8 - and with NIS.
Never attempted to hide the NIS password crypts.
Solaris 10 supports longer crypts, if enabled. Standard in Solaris 11. But with NIS...?
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
niserror
niserror(1) User Commands niserror(1)
NAME
niserror - display NIS+ error messages
SYNOPSIS
niserror error-num
DESCRIPTION
niserror prints the NIS+ error associated with status value error-num on the standard output. It is used by shell scripts to translate
NIS+ error numbers that are returned into text messages.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using niserror
The following example prints the error associated with the error number 20:
example% niserror 20
Not Found, no such name
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWnisu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
nis+(1), nis_error(3NSL), attributes(5)
NOTES
NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are
available in the Solaris 9 operating environment. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.
SunOS 5.10 10 Dec 2001 niserror(1)