From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 18:58:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA05848 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:58:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from onyx.atipa.com (user15827@ns.atipa.com [208.128.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA05797 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 1018); 5 Mar 1998 03:01:18 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:01:18 -0700 (MST) From: Atipa X-Sender: freebsd@dot.ishiboo.com To: stephen farrell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS will not authenticate / login In-Reply-To: <87sooxkfwt.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am sure that will do it! Thanks! (I did not see this info in the "yp" man page... hmmm...) Regards, Kevin On 4 Mar 1998, stephen farrell wrote: > Atipa writes: > > > I am using 2.2.2-RELEASE (BTW - man page is out of date; it refers to > > /etc/sysconfig instead of /etc/rc.conf). > > 2.2.2-RELEASE is rather out-of-date at this point. > > > I set up yp/nis, and everything appears to work fine (rpc.passwdd, > > ypserv, ypcat, ypchsh, ypwhich, etc.). I can make my user lists and verify > > them locally and remotely using ypcat. > > > > I can also change passwords and finger information w/ ypchsh and > > yppasswd (and /usr/bin/passwd for NIS-only logins). No problems at all. > > > > However, whenever I try to login (telnet, ftp, or console) w/ an NIS > > identity, I get the normal "login incorrect" message. Yes, I am typing > > the correct password :) > > > > Do you need a different version of /usr/libexec/login for NIS? I would > > think authentication would be built into getpwent(), but I could be wrong. > > Did you add the appropriate entries to /etc/passwd and /etc/group? > For more information, see man 5 passwd, in particular the section > entitled "YP/NIS INTERACTION". > > -- > > Steve Farrell > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message