From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 17: 6:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com (teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com [139.134.5.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96D9737B66C for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by teapot21.domain3.bigpond.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id wa970394 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:06:04 +1000 Received: from DKBH-T-003-p-249-64.tmns.net.au ([203.54.249.64]) by mail3.bigpond.com (Claudes-Colourful-MailRouter V2.9c 5/4398181); 11 Oct 2000 10:06:02 Message-ID: <39E3A8D2.48A86645@iname.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:40:02 +1000 From: Peter Ortner X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eirvine Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD NIS server, Redhat Client. References: <39E2DB4B.8879C032@tpgi.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Eddie, This is due to the shell not existing in the same place on RedHat. Find out where the shell should be according to FreeBSD (look in /etc/master.passwd at the entry for that user) and then create a symlink on the RH box to that path from the binary (use which to find the source). Also, use authconfig on the RH box to configure NIS- less pain. HTH. Regards, Peter. ---- http://www.users.bigpond.com/portner (Web Page) port@iname.com (Internet E-mail) ICQ 3114573 eirvine wrote: > I've got a FreeBSD NIS server which is working > fine for FreeBSD clients, and Caldera Linux > clients. > > When a user tries to log in on a RedHat 6.2 > workstation, the login session exits without > any errors. > > Other than not use redhat, does anyone have > any pointers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message