Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:11:12 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Carey Nairn <C.Nairn@dpac.tas.gov.au>, Salvatore Riccio <svrmsn@email.msn.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't login using nis (yp) Message-ID: <19980324231112.A2645@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980325153255.009ffb00@mailroom.dpac.tas.gov.au>; from "Carey Nairn" on Wed Mar 25 15:32:55 GMT 1998 References: <000101bd57a3$826b5580$40152399@win95> <3.0.1.32.19980325153255.009ffb00@mailroom.dpac.tas.gov.au>
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In the last episode (Mar 25), Carey Nairn said: > At 23:07 24/03/98 -0500, Salvatore Riccio wrote: > >which shows that the freebsd system queries the yp server which > >return the user information. The /etc/passwd file on the freebsd > >system was edited to include the in the last line > >+:*:0:0:::::: > >to add to this file the yp servers password maps. > > This sounds like the same problem I am having and have posted to the > -questions list about. As yet I have had no reply, but the server I am > trying to authenticate with is a FreeBSD-2.0.5 machine. All other yp > functions (ypcat, ypbind, ypwhich...) seem to work OK. > > If you get anywhere with this i would appreciate any info you have. > Likewise, if I have a breakthrough I will let you know. Please read the passwd(5) man page, which explains that you really want +::::::::: as your NIS line (and use vipw to edit it; /etc/passwd is not used under FreeBSD). The line you specified set a password of '*' (locking out all NIS logins), and remapped the uid and gid for all NIS users to 0 (which would have been a huge security hole if not for the locked-out password) I am able to to authenticate to a NIS server running on a Netware 4.11 machine with no problems. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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