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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 1996 18:00:12 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS/ypbind (passwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.960606175843.7732A-100000@father.ludd.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <199606040651.IAA08078@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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> I'm running FreeBSD as a NIS server with a hand full of clients.
> It seems to be necessary to run ypbind also on the server otherwise
> I would be getting that clnt_something rpc error message 

That is the normal way to do it, yes.

> during e.g. every xterm login. OTOH, running ypbind results in
> not letting me set the local password for root for example.
> I always get ' setting NIS password' when using the passwd command.

Man passwd. passwd -l sets the local password.



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