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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:57:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Carey Nairn <C.Nairn@dpac.tas.gov.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: yp problems between 2.2.5 and 2.0.5
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980329225636.23543W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980324095401.009eb980@mailroom.dpac.tas.gov.au>

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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Carey Nairn wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I have a problem with a new installation of 2.2.5 on a machine in relation
> to yp.
> 
> Having set up the new machine as a yp client on our network, I seem to get
> some things to work but not others.  If I do a ypwhich, the command returns
> the name of a valid server and other functions such as ypcat seem to work
> OK.  The point at which I get problems is when trying to authenticate a
> user from the yp database.  This fails every time.
> 
> The server is running 2.0.5 and the client is running 2.2.5
> Both machines are using (Non-US) DES for encryption.
> 
> any thoughts?

Did you remember to put the magic sequence +::::::::: into the password
file with vipw?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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