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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:33:59 -0500
From:      Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   NIS - adding users
Message-ID:  <39BE7717.6CCC206C@planetwe.com>

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I've set NIS up on two systems for some testing - I have one server, and
one client, both running 4.0, both with the same domainname. The client
server has an entry in /var/yp/securenets:

10.0.0.5	255.255.255.255

after initializing the NIS database, I could ypcat passwd from the
client system and it would list the information that should be there. I
figured that I should then test the setup by adding a user. So I adduser
and created a user, and then cd'd to /var/yp and ran make <domain>, it
spewed forth some information at me, and then I tried to log into the
client machine using the new user. No dice. Running ypcat passwd shows
the old information, which is correct, just sans the new user. I know
this is a bit vauge, but I did add +::::::: to the /etc/master.passwd to
the client, and I added the proper line to the /etc/groups file as well.
Does anyone have any ideas why the client isn't updating? I've looked at
the handbook, and noticed that it says you can use adduser and it
stresses to make sure you update the domain database afterwards, and I
followed the steps in the handbook for setting things up. Can someone
suggest a good place for me to start troubleshooting this? Thanks.


-- 
Drew Sanford
Systems Administrator
Planetwe.com
Email: drew@planetwe.com


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