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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news3.near.net!news-server.bos.locus.com!troy.la.locus.com!troy.la.locus.com!sassan From: sassan@locus.com (Sassan Behzadi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: NIS/YP Date: 23 May 1995 20:55:50 GMT Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Inc. Lines: 57 Message-ID: <3pti4m$1odk@troy.la.locus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: troy.la.locus.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm trying to setup a BSD 2.0 system as an NIS client. I think I've done all the right things: Set domainname, added a + entry in the password file and run ypbind. It certainly sees my NIS server and I can even do ypcat's and a ypwhich, but it still ignores the NIS passwd map and doesn't allow any logins. I don't think the login process is even quering the server since the "Password:" prompt seems to come back immediately after I type in the username. I searched through some of the mail and news archives and found quiet a number of people who have had similar problems. The answers to their problems were few and not always clear. Here's what I've seen so far: [] Create the directory /var/yp (I have). [] Make sure you have a correct entry in your password file. I think I do: +::::::::: via vipw which translates it to: +:*:0:0:: in /etc/passwd [] Set your domainname I think I have: domainname blah-blah in /etc/rc.local [] Run ypbind I am. Right after the above statement in /etc/rc.local Are there other things? I.e. do I have to put the domainname in /etc/defaultdomain? Do I have to uncomment the kerberos stuff in rc.local? Do I have to uncomment NIS in /etc/hosts.conf? (I don't think so, since I'm using DNS for host name lookup?) Do I have to add a ypserver='IP' command in rc.local? Must I have NIS markers in /etc/group as well as the password file? May be the entry in master.passwd has to be: +:*:0:0::0:0::/:/dev/null instead of +::::::::: ? Does this stuff even work :-) Any ideas? Thanks, Sassan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sassan Behzadi sassan@locus.com