Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:55:20 -0700 From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net> To: Tom Munro Glass <tom@tmgcon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients Message-ID: <20040607205520.GE22403@isite.net> In-Reply-To: <200405301750.14665.tom@tmgcon.com> References: <200405301405.59995.tom@tmgcon.com> <20040529201221.GE28582@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> <200405301750.14665.tom@tmgcon.com>
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Did you enable the insecure option from /var/yp/Makefile so that passwords appear in the passwd map? By default I believe it expects clients to read the master.passwd map, which naturally Linux does not. On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:50:14PM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > > This should work; I've got a Linux machine at work succesfully > > authenticating NIS accounts against a FreeBSD server. I believe > > that the differences in passwd files are strictly in the master.passwd > > (FreeBSD) and shadow (Linux) files; the files /etc/passwd have the > > same format in both OS'. > > > > I'd suspect problems in the way the clients have been configured. > > Check that the password and group files have been set up correctly > > (I screw up the sequence of plus signs and colons regularly), and > > that the NIS domain has been set. > > > > So how does Linux authenticate the password? 'ypwhich -m' shows passwd.byname, > passwd.byuid, master.passwd.byname, master.passwd.byuid but of course there > is no shadow.byname or shadow.byuid. > > I believe that I have the passwd and group files set up correctly on the Linux > machines, and I don't really know where to look next. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek JRhett@Isite.Net Isite Services, Inc.
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