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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