Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 13:18:37 +0800 From: Sin Key Teck <ktsin@acm.org> To: Gary Lewandowski <lewandow@cerebro.xu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd as NIS server to Solaris Clients Message-ID: <3931FDAD.6B8FAB91@acm.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005250732370.21211-100000@cerebro.xu.edu>
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Edit the file /var/yp/Makefile and uncomment the line: #UNSECURE = "True" Remake and repush the maps. Hope this helps. kt Gary Lewandowski wrote: > > Our CS program has been running on a FreeBSD server for several years; we > received an NSF grant to (among other things) put in a lab of Sparcs. I > want to cause little or no disruption to my students so the plan is to run > our freebsd box as the NIS (and NFS) server to the lab. > > Freebsd's ypserv restricts clients to using ports under 1024. Solaris NIS > clients happily use all ports when they talk to ypserv. The unhappy > result is that my Solaris boxes (Solaris 7) give "login incorrect" all the > time. Does anyone know a way to either tell ypserv to allow ports above > 1024 (this isn't my preference of course) or how to make Solaris NIS > restrict itself? I see one solution may be to (ugh) copy master.passwd.* > to passwd.* Is there a better/nicer/prettier way? > > Thanks for any help or advice :-) > > gary > =========================================================================== > Gary Lewandowski lewandow@cerebro.xu.edu http://cerebro.xu.edu/~lewandow > Xavier University Mathematics and Computer Science > =========================================================================== > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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