Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 12:45:55 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Toby Swanson <toby@milkyway.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS login problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971214124309.2499A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971214140843.531A-100000@antares.milkyway.org>
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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Toby Swanson wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Tom wrote: > > > > > You shouldn't run yppasswdd on clients. It should only run on the > > master NIS server. > > > > Killed it. > > > > > Do you have "+:::::::::" in master.passwd on the client? > > > > Well, uh, sort of. :^) What I had was from the O'Reilly NFS and NIS book. > > +:*:::::::: > > Their reason was to prevent the user "+" from logging in with no password > if NIS is not running. It seems the use of a shadow password file takes > care of this problem. When I changed it logins started working. You should have read the manpage instead. It is quite explicit about this. See "man 5 passwd", it is very detailed. > Thanks for your help. > > Toby Tom
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