From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 28 22:18:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78DF37BA4C for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 22:18:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ktsin@acm.org) Received: from sr71.Singapore.Sun.COM ([129.158.72.11]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04216; Sun, 28 May 2000 22:18:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acm.org (corona [129.158.138.15]) by sr71.Singapore.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with ESMTP id NAA12737; Mon, 29 May 2000 13:18:37 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <3931FDAD.6B8FAB91@acm.org> Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 13:18:37 +0800 From: Sin Key Teck Organization: No Organization X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Lewandowski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd as NIS server to Solaris Clients References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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