From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 14:33: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3424B151F1 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 14:33:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18464; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 17:32:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.63]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12791; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 17:32:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199903212124.QAA05271@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 17:32:46 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: cjclark@home.com Subject: Re: Why are NIS netgroups ignored... Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, (John Baldwin) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21-Mar-99 Crist J. Clark wrote: > John Baldwin wrote, >> I administrate a lab of about 80 machines running BSD and Digital UNIX. To >> make our lives easier, we run NIS. However, I can't get FreeBSD to >> acknowledge >> NIS netgroups in config files, specifically .rhosts or > /etc/login.access. > > Have you read the FreeBSD manpage for 'netgroup?' Specifically, the > 'NIS/YP INTERACTION' section? > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com Yes, and there is no /etc/netgroup file on the machine, so it should be pulling all netgroup stuff from NIS, if I read the manpages correctly. Thanks for your response. --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message