Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 08:55:13 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, nrahlstr@winternet.com Subject: Re: NIS setup? Message-ID: <199808041555.IAA08446@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980803161738.28985A-100000@tundra.winternet.com>
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>Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 16:27:09 -0500 (CDT) >From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> >I am attempting to get NIS running on my home network. >Setup looks like this: portage (server) inferno(client) >portage# ps -ax | grep yp >10105 ?? Ss 0:00.04 ypserv >10114 ?? Is 0:00.01 rpc.yppasswdd I'm a little surprised that you don't have ypbind also running on the server; certainly on my home network, the NIS server is also a client -- with only a couple of machines, having half of them use a different source of password information than the other half rather reduces the incentive for using NIS for passwords in the first place. >inferno# ps -ax | grep yp >12309 ?? Is 0:00.01 ypbind -s >If I run yppasswd on the client and I get the following output >each time. >inferno% passwd -y >Changing NIS password for nrahlstr on portage.winternet.com. >Old Password: >passwd: sorry >Anyone have any ideas? Thanks. Well, that message indicates that the getpw*() routines on inferno have a different notion of the correct password for "nrahlstr" than what you entered. Did you use vipw to append the "+:::::::::" line for each client? (Note: in the special case of the NIS server also acting as a client, I make the source for the NIS maps a directory other than /etc on the server. That allows me to include that "magic cookie" line without having an entry derived from it in the NIS passwd-related maps.) You may also want to have an entry of a similar form for your group-oriented NIS maps. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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