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From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Brian J. McGovern wrote:

> I have a Sun server, running 4.1.x (I'm assuming x=3 or 4) that is a
> NISserver for a particular domain. On my FreeBSD 2.1.5 and 2.2-SNAP,
> I loaded the secure dist, and fired up ypbind. Although I can ypcat,
> and see the password file, I can't use any of the information. Is there
> anything special that I need to do in order to use it? Thanks.

 Hmm.. I assume that you are talking about your password file.. and if
 so, you need to make an entry in your password file like this:

 +::::::::: 

then the entries will show up.

 -branson


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