Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:52:08 +0200 (EET) From: "Ben 'Bend Over' Dover" <mike@sonhosting.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS problem Message-ID: <27626.137.163.145.226.1079095928.squirrel@www.sonhosting.net>
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The last couple of days I've bin trying to setup a box to authenticate users from a NIS server. With the help of the Handbook pages I've done that and it works. But I can't seem to get the client to only accept users from a specific normal group. Out take from the 4.9Rel passwd man pages: --- Using groups instead of netgroups for NIS overrides FreeBSD offers the capability to do override matching based on user groups rather than netgroups. If, for example, an NIS entry is specified as: +@operator::::::::: the system will first try to match users against a netgroup called `operator'. If an `operator' netgroup doesn't exist, the system will try to match users against the normal `operator' group instead. --- I understod this so that if operator isn't a netgroup but normal group the client will only add users from the NIS-server that belong to that group. But I can't seem to get it to work! Did I understand the text wrong or have someone else experienced this problem? I'd just like to know if this is possible to do or not!
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