From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 20 07:31:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20032 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 07:31:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail5.realtime.net (mail5.realtime.net [205.238.128.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA20027 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 07:31:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: from barnowl ([205.238.146.170]) by mail5.realtime.net ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 09:32:05 -600 Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 09:39:38 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Ritwik Bhattacharya cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS client enabling In-Reply-To: <367CF5CF.4AA375B1@dbrci.blr.daimlerbenz.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Ritwik Bhattacharya wrote: > Hi! I want to enable NIS on my bsd box. The NIS server is another bsd > box. I have run ypserv on the server, and ypbind on my box. Things seem > ok, because ypcat, ypmatch etc work. But I am unable to log in on my > machine with any user id on the server. Could it be something to do with > bsd's policy of not servicing requests on non-priviledged ports ? Can > someone help ? > Greetins! Take a look at: http://www.realtime.net/sculpture (FreeBSD links) There is a small tutorial I put up based on my own experience. I hope it can help. If you have any comment, please do let me know. I'm in the process of a rewrite. Good Luck! John> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message