nisauthconf controls which authentication flavors NIS+ should use when communicating with other NIS+ clients and servers. If the command is not executed, then NIS+ will default to the AUTH_DES authentication flavor when running security level 2. See rpc.nisd(1M).

nisauthconf takes a list of authentication mechanism's in order of preference. An authentication mechanism may use one or more authentication flavors listed below. If des is the only specified mechanism, then NIS+ only use AUTH_DES with other NIS+ clients and servers. If des is the first mechanism, then other authentication mechanism's after des will be ignored by NIS+, except for nisaddcred(1M). After changing the mechanism configuration, the keyserv(1M) daemon must be restarted. Note that doing so will remove encryption keys stored by the running keyserv process. This means that a reboot usually is the safest option when the mechanism configuration has been changed.

The following mechanisms are available:

Authentication mechanism	Authentication Flavor
des	AUTH_DES
dh640-0	RPCSEC_GSS using 640-bit Diffie-Hellman keys
dh1024-0	RPCSEC_GSS using 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman keys

If no mechanisms are specified, then a list of currently configured mechanisms is printed.

-v

Displays a verbose table listing the currently configured authentication mechanisms.

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

1

An error occurred.

/etc/rpcsec/nisplussec.conf

NIS+ authentication configuration file. This file may change or be removed in future versions of Solaris.

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

nis+(1), keyserv(1M), nisaddcred(1M), rpc.nisd(1M), attributes(5)

A NIS+ client of a server that is configured for either dh640-0 or dh1024-0 must run Solaris 7 or later, even if the server is also configured with des.

NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the Solaris 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.