Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:27:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "sysadmin@mfn.org" <sysadmin@mfn.org> Cc: "'-Questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: rdist oddity Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161427000.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BDAF58.F40AE720@noc.mfn.org>
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, sysadmin@mfn.org wrote: > Greets... > > Added a server last night, and when we ran our daily > rdist, we got "Permission Denied" from that host. I can't figure > out *why*... In the process of trying to figure this out, I have: > > (1) Enabled *every* r-service in inetd.conf > (2) Put world-write and read on every file and directory in the box (no, > I don't plan to leave it this way :) > (3) Made sure that RDIST was running as root > (4) Pulled out lots and lots of hairs.... :( > > To top it off: this guy doesn't "get" NIS. I get the proper > responses from ypwhich, ycat passwd, domainname, etc., ypbind > *is* running, but it won't login anyone not in the local passwd file! Is the magic word "+:::::::::" in the master password file? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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