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Date:      Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:06:40 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Zilong Wang <zlwang@borland.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem with nis server setup
Message-ID:  <20020201030639.GA92838@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C5A049F.CB428610@borland.com>
References:  <3C5A049F.CB428610@borland.com>

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In the last episode (Feb 01), Zilong Wang said:
> Hi gurus,
> 
> I experienced a strang problem with nis server setup when trying to
> change users' passwd from  nis clients.
> 
> I just setup a FreeBSD 4.3-release yp server and client is Solaris 8
> machine. Actually the procedure is pretty simple, however, I did have
> trouble to change passwd in the end. I created my master.passwd file as
> follows:
> 
> ...
> zlwang::126:888:0:0:zlwang:/export/home/zlwang:/bin/ksh
> ...
> 
> I tried "passwd zlwang" from the client, I failed with the following
> messages shown on the console of the FreeBSD nis server:
> 
> Feb 1 10:47:38 coolbug rpc.yppasswdd[162]: /bin/ksh is not a valid shell

Try adding /bin/ksh to /etc/shells on the NIS master.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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