Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:38:20 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Carey Nairn <C.Nairn@dpac.tas.gov.au>, Salvatore Riccio <svrmsn@email.msn.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't login using nis (yp) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980324233557.312B-100000@barnowl> In-Reply-To: <19980324231112.A2645@emsphone.com>
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Thanks Dan! I knew there was a reason for this but I never thought to look at the passwd man page. (sigh...) John On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 25), Carey Nairn said: > > At 23:07 24/03/98 -0500, Salvatore Riccio wrote: > > >which shows that the freebsd system queries the yp server which > > >return the user information. The /etc/passwd file on the freebsd > > >system was edited to include the in the last line > > >+:*:0:0:::::: > > >to add to this file the yp servers password maps. > > > > This sounds like the same problem I am having and have posted to the > > -questions list about. As yet I have had no reply, but the server I am > > trying to authenticate with is a FreeBSD-2.0.5 machine. All other yp > > functions (ypcat, ypbind, ypwhich...) seem to work OK. > > > > If you get anywhere with this i would appreciate any info you have. > > Likewise, if I have a breakthrough I will let you know. > > Please read the passwd(5) man page, which explains that you really want > > +::::::::: > > as your NIS line (and use vipw to edit it; /etc/passwd is not used > under FreeBSD). The line you specified set a password of '*' (locking > out all NIS logins), and remapped the uid and gid for all NIS users to > 0 (which would have been a huge security hole if not for the locked-out > password) > > I am able to to authenticate to a NIS server running on a Netware 4.11 > machine with no problems. > > -Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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