Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:36:06 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS authontication problem. Message-ID: <20031214163606.GQ64340@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312141807010.8818-100000@ce.sharif.ac.ir> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312141807010.8818-100000@ce.sharif.ac.ir>
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:13:39PM -0500, Hossein wrote: > Hello every body; > In our department we are going to use a 5.1 Stable FreeBSD, and it > must run NIS client to authonticate the users through a Linux NIS server. > The ypbind works well and when I do "ypcat passwd" I get the > enteries in the passwd of the NIS server. I added the correct lines to > passwd.master and group according to the handbook. But no user can log in > and in the /var/log/auth.log it apears that the password is not corect. I haven't tried integrating non-BSD'ish machines into one of my NIS domains, but it occurs to me that the /etc/shadow vs /etc/master.passwd difference could cause /etc/passwd to propogate without actually distributing the passwords. You might want to investigate "compatibility" modes and so forth. -T -- Speak the truth. That is always much easier, and is often the most powerful argument. - Bene Gesserit Axiom
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