Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:11:53 -0700 From: David Thiel <dthiel@nexprise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Subject: Re: What's up with yp login authentication? Message-ID: <398F09F9.117ACDC9@nexprise.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008071450160.73245-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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Well, I set up the NIS server fresh, so I don't think it's a problem like that. What's wierd is that I can change yp passwords with yppasswd and it works fine, I can read all of the maps, and run finger and everything, but when it comes time to login, it won't go through NIS. I have the required rc.conf entries in place. The situation has just become critical - my boss is now preparing to use Linux for our desktop systems instead of FBSD, because of these problems :(. -lx "Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, David Thiel wrote: > > >I'm also having some very bizarre yp problems. I've double and > >triple-checked my configuration, and although I can do ypwhich and ypcat > >the NIS maps, logins don't appear to authenticate through NIS. Maybe > >there's something I'm missing, but I added a test user after enabling > >NIS, and they didn't authenticate through it. Is there something > >different one has to do when adding users under NIS? > > You could have had a brainfart like I did this morning. I just fixed my > NIS problem. I copied the shadow file off of my IRIX NIS server without > remembering to run it through awk and convert from a sixth edition > passwd format to the BSD format that includes the extra fields for login > classes, etc. I couldn't get it to authenticate because it was not able > to read the master.passwd.byname and .byuid maps properly. Finger could > get the information since it was only looking in the passwd.byname and > .byuid maps. > > Brandon D. Valentine > -- > bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu > "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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