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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:23:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      mi@privatelabs.com
To:        Howard Leadmon <howardl@account.abs.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS under FreeBSD - HELP
Message-ID:  <200004131223.IAA05094@misha.privatelabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <200004122209.SAA12252@account.abs.net>

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On 12 Apr, Howard Leadmon wrote:
=  I am in the  process of trying to make NIS function  on a few FreeBSD
= machines, and think  I have everything setup and working  for the most
= part. The  one problem I am  having is that  when I try and  perform a
= login, the  auth attempts  all fail  unless the user  is in  the local
= password file,  and yes I  do have  the + entry  at the bottom  of the
= passwd and master.passwd files.

It is possible,  the nis master and the client  use different encryption
schemes to encrypt the password -- DES and MD5 are the two variants.

You'll want to  check what /usr/lib/libcrypt.so points to  and make sure
it points to the same things on all systems. Yours,

	-mi




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