From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 21:32:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06114 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:29:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06007 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:29:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA16640; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 21:29:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John Kenagy cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: NIS, no luck :-( In-Reply-To: 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message