David Lee wrote:
We understand that filer can do NIS, and that it can use its own shadow password file, but can use a Solaris/NIS/shadow combination? Network Appliance haven't yet been able to give us a definitive answer, nor a reference site we could contact.
The filer cannot get a shadow password file from NIS. The only maps it supports are:
hosts.byname hosts.byaddr passwd.byname passwd.byuid passwd.adjunct group.byname group.bygid netgroup.byhost
However, if you are in a Unix only environment, then this doesn't matter. The filer does no allow login, so the password portion is not used. The only thing the filer uses the password file for is to do username->UID mapping, so you only really need to worry about having a password at all if you have an /etc/quotas file with usernames in it.
If you are using Unix password authentication with CIFS, however, you have to copy the shadow file onto the filer itself. (Note that this does not apply if you have domain authentication.)