From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 14:28:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19051 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19033 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:28:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA06665; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:27:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:27:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "sysadmin@mfn.org" cc: "'-Questions'" Subject: Re: rdist oddity In-Reply-To: <01BDAF58.F40AE720@noc.mfn.org> 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 Tue, 14 Jul 1998, sysadmin@mfn.org wrote: > Greets... > > Added a server last night, and when we ran our daily > rdist, we got "Permission Denied" from that host. I can't figure > out *why*... In the process of trying to figure this out, I have: > > (1) Enabled *every* r-service in inetd.conf > (2) Put world-write and read on every file and directory in the box (no, > I don't plan to leave it this way :) > (3) Made sure that RDIST was running as root > (4) Pulled out lots and lots of hairs.... :( > > To top it off: this guy doesn't "get" NIS. I get the proper > responses from ypwhich, ycat passwd, domainname, etc., ypbind > *is* running, but it won't login anyone not in the local passwd file! Is the magic word "+:::::::::" in the master password file? 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