From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 12:12: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jubilee.bbn.com (JUBILEE.bbn.com [171.78.41.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4816114F94 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mgelinas@scuzzlebutt.bbn.com) Received: from bbn.com (IDENT:root@scuzzlebutt.bbn.com [171.78.41.121]) by jubilee.bbn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA09153 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:12:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from scuzzlebutt.bbn.com (IDENT:mgelinas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bbn.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05705 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:30:09 -0500 Message-Id: <199911122030.PAA05705@bbn.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NIS client support in FreeBSD-3.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:30:08 -0500 From: "J. Maynard Gelinas" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello folks, I just installed a FreeBSD-3.3 host and have networking up, ypbind running with an appropriate domainname set, and I can ypcat out all of my NIS maps without a problem. However, I'm finding it difficult to configure my host to perform NIS client lookups for login requests. I note that according to the man nis I'm supposed to use the traditional "+" tokens in each various /etc configuration file in order to facilitate the inclusion of each respective NIS map, however vipw won't allow me to include a basic token such as: +:*:0:0::: in the password map. It just complains about a garbled entry and won't build write the password file. I've poked around www.freebsd.org and looked for documentation for NIS configuration but I don't see any. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, --Maynard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message