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From: sysadm@unixg.ubc.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: YP with FreeBSD-1.1.5.1
Date: 20 Jul 1994 00:48:46 GMT
Organization: UBC Pulp & Paper Centre
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <30hs9e$lbq@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: willow.ppc.ubc.ca


I have setup FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and I am now trying to get the Yellow Pages
to work. The machine is on the net and running fine, the domain is set and
ypbind works. I can ypcat all the maps and have got the hostname lookup 
using yp. But I can't get the passwd or group maps to work, I can ypcat
the passwd map but can't add it to the passwd file for logins. If I use
vipw to add a + entry to the passwd file, it complains that the entry is invalid
and won't add it.  

Is there a special way of adding the yp entry to the passwd file?

Reid Turner
sysadm@ppc.ubc.ca
UBC Pulp and Paper Centre