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From: ceharris@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Carl Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: strange NIS/YP problem
Date: 29 Aug 1995 09:42:56 -0400
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science
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Superuser (root@buffnet.net) wrote:
: I set up a freebsd to act as a nis client of an SCO machine.
: I can pull the passwd.byname and byuid files fine.
: If I do ypmatch userid passwd  it shows me the correct line.
: But Ill be darned if a remove user can login.


Just a quick sanity check:  are you absolutely positive you have the
DES subsets installed?  They aren't installed by default...

--
Carl Harris
EXECUTIVE Scapegoat (and Systems Engineer)
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
ceharris@cs.vt.edu