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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:29:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>
Cc:        questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NIS, no luck :-(
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311212849.16485i-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980311204840.249C-100000@barnowl.roost.net>

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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, John Kenagy wrote:

> Ok, I'm lost.
> 
> I've been through the man pages, dogeared the Hal Stern book,
> and only spent two evenings getting my network to run again while
> trying to set up NIS. Between one server and one client, no less!

DId you find *all* the man pages, esp. yp(8) and ypserv(8)?

> Since I cannot log on to any users in the map I think the append never
> happens. What, exactly is the syntax of the "+" key usage in this
> implementation.

+::::::::, I think.  Count my colons, it should correspond to the number
of fields in /etc/passwd.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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