From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 12:20:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397A537B794 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:20:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA74923; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:21:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 15:21:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: David Thiel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's up with yp login authentication? In-Reply-To: <398F09F9.117ACDC9@nexprise.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 Mon, 7 Aug 2000, David Thiel wrote: >Well, I set up the NIS server fresh, so I don't think it's a problem >like that. What's wierd is that I can change yp passwords with yppasswd >and it works fine, I can read all of the maps, and run finger and >everything, but when it comes time to login, it won't go through NIS. I >have the required rc.conf entries in place. The situation has just >become critical - my boss is now preparing to use Linux for our desktop >systems instead of FBSD, because of these problems :(. Did you read passwd(5)? Are you sure you have added the appropriate passwd database entry via vipw? These are some key things to check. Why don't you take a look at the screenlog I posted in my first message, run those exact same commands with your test username substituted, and return the output to the list. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message