Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:10:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960320130756.29377C-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199603200731.CAA10198@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Bill Paul wrote: > > I've set the appropriate settings in sysconfig, and am running > > ypbind -s on that machine, but try as I might, I can't login to that > > machine unless the user entry is in the password file on that machine. > > There's stuff missing here. Editing sysconfig is not all there is > to it (though I'm sure people would like it to be that way :). You > need to add +::::::::: to the end of /etc/master.passwd and rebuild That did it...I had put +:+:::::::: in my master.passwd file ;( Works now, thanks. > Read the passwd(5) man page when modifying /etc/master.passwd. Don't > get clever with the magic '+' entries unless you know what you're > doing. Don't use +:*::::::::. Don't use +::0:0::::::. Don't use > any combination thereof. This is not SunOS. Don't expect everything > to work the same. > Ack...I looked through every YP man page I could find, but didn't even think to look at passwd(5)...sorry for wasting time :( It works now, thanks ... Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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