From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 23 02:02:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA10102 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 02:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA10097 for ; Fri, 23 May 1997 02:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA25239; Fri, 23 May 1997 11:03:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id LAA04500; Fri, 23 May 1997 11:04:15 +0200 (MEST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199705230904.LAA04500@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: NIS support In-Reply-To: from Cheekeong Soo at "May 22, 97 07:26:27 pm" To: airsoo@eecs.umich.edu (Cheekeong Soo) Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:04:14 +0200 (MEST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I'm using freeBSD v 2.2.2 release and I'm having a big problem with NIS > password support. Here's what I've done > > 1) Copy /etc/master.passwd file to /var/yp > 2) Generate ypservers file in /var/yp > 3) Make maps using the make -f Makefile.dist > 4) Enable ypserv on the server by modifying the flag in rc.conf > 5) Enable ypbind on the client by modifying the flag in rc.conf > 6) Modify the client's /etc/passwd to include the entry + > 7) Modify the client's /etc/master.passwd to include the entry + You only need to do a vipw on the client side and add the last line +::::::::: Are you running rcp.yppasswdd on the server? Are you using the correct flags as in man rcp.yppasswdd? I'm using /etc/master.passwd (MASTER_PASSWD=/etc/master.passwd in /var/yp/Makefile on the server. I find it easier to maintain) > 8) Set the domainname of both the client and the server > What does ypwhich say ? > And it doesn't work! I wonder if anybody have experience in this can give > me a hand. Thanks in advance. What does it mean 'it doesn't work !' ? Be more specific. > > > CK > > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de