Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:50:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Sarwat Husain <sarwat@alpinenetworks.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, isp-unix@isp-unix.com Subject: Re: NIS client setup ?? Message-ID: <19980821235012.A22498@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <35DE0E93.690AB415@yahoo.com>; from "Sarwat Husain" on Fri Aug 21 17:19:31 GMT 1998 References: <35DE0E93.690AB415@yahoo.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 21), Sarwat Husain said: > I've been trying to setup an NIS client under FreeBSD 2.2.6 > but unsuccessful, well kind of. It seems like every thing > works, meaning : > # ypwhich > gives the NIS servers name > > # ypcat passwd > gives the password file from the NIS server > > # ypcat hosts > gives the hosts file on from the NIS server > > I did a vipw to modify the master.passwd file and added > +:::::::::, exited out and when check the passwd file it had > +:*::: so I got rid of the *. Is that OK ? Doesn't really matter; FreeBSD doesn't use /etc/passwd at all. It's only for oddball 3rd-party programs that don't use getpw*(). All your config info looks okay to me. Can you do a "ypmatch <nisuser> passwd.byname" ? It should return the passwd line for that user. If that works, see if an "id <nisuser>" works. Make sure your "+" line in vipw doesn't have leading or trailing blanks; a trailing blank will be parsed as an invalid shell (preventing logins). I've got NIS clients on a couple 2.2.7 machines listening to a Netware 4.11 NIS server without any problems. You might want to try tcpdumping packets, to see if the BSD box is even sending out NIS queries. > Also, we are planning on cutting over to FreeBSD replacing > all of the linux boxes if NFS performance proves to be > better than Linux's. Do you know what implementation of NFS, > FreeBSD uses ? What implementation? Not sure what you mean. It's all in-kernel and supports TCP and UDP mounts. As to performance and stability, you might want to check the thread raging in the -hackers list titled "Linux vs FreeBSD (performances)" :) I personally can't complain about the NFS implementation; at work we can just about saturate a 100mbit full-duplex Ethernet link between two 2.2.7 machines during large file copies over NFS, and we haven't had any NFS-related hangs in over 6 months. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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