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Date:      Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:39:00 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Hossein <falaki@ce.sharif.ac.ir>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS authontication problem.
Message-ID:  <20031214203900.GE17799@dan.emsphone.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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In the last episode (Dec 14), Hossein said:
> 	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.

If you edited passwd.master directly, you may need to run "pwd_mkdb" to
rebuild the spwd.db and pwd.db database files that the system uses. 
The "vipw" command does this automatically.  

Does "finger somenisuser" on the client print the right info?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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