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Date:      Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:44:43 +0200
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS fails after upgrade to 4.6
Message-ID:  <20020808004443.A4666@gicco.cablecom.ch>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208060935260.8877-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net>; from dsilver@urchin.com on Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:38:07AM -0700
References:  <20020806145507.A730@gicco.cablecom.ch> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208060935260.8877-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net>

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  On Aug 06 at 09:38, Doug Silver spoke:

> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> 
> > Do `ypwhich' and `ypwhich -x' look reasonable?
> 
> yes, both are pointing to the right machine and correct
> information.  'ypcat passwd' gets everything, but running 'yppasswd
> dsilver' fails.
> 
> I'm tending to guess it's something wrong/incorrect with pam, but I'm not
> really sure where.  

Who knows. I don't have experience with pam.

Is nis_yppasswdd_enable enabled in /etc/rc.conf? Is rpc.yppasswdd
running?

If it is a slave server maybe you need to rerun ypinit.

Is an entry like +::::::::: in /etc/master.passwd?
Maybe you need to run vipw.

Have you verified with the handbook?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nis.html

-Hanspeter

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