Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:56:06 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: AMAKAWA Shuhei <sa264@cam.ac.uk> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NIS/YP problems using pw(8) Message-ID: <20011025205259.W1888-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <E15wpY4-0004n3-00@green.csi.cam.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, AMAKAWA Shuhei wrote: NO, sorry :-( In this case, it is the studpid admin (myself) which causes the fault. But the automated creation of home directories still won't work with this configuration. Updating etc. of user passwords now works from the whole LAN. pw(8) creates the appropriate entries in master.passwd (NIS/YP type), but it does not create the home directory, as expected with the -m flag. Why? Does pw(8) need a master.passwd in /etc/?? :>At Thu, 25 Oct 2001 19:59:49 +0200 (CEST), :>Hartmann, O. <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> wrote: :>> What I did (on the NIS/YP master server which is a slave to itself): :>> :>> I created a separate directory etc in /var/yp (now /var/yp/etc) and moved :>> herein all NIS/YP relevant files, normaly located in /etc, eg. :>> :>> master.passwd :>> group :>> rpc :>> services :>> and so on. :> :>do you run rpc.yppasswdd with -t flag? :> :>-- :>Shuhei :> -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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