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From: orc@pell.chi.il.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NIS like SUNOS ?
Date: 25 Dec 1995 08:40:46 -0800
Organization: The Dread Pirate Roberts
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Message-ID: <4bmk6e$6l@downbelow.pell.chi.il.us>
References: <4bfi0f$955@calweb.calweb.com> <4bkp47$kg@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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In article <4bkp47$kg@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>,
Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote:
>Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Chris Hancock
>(ochanco@calweb.com) had the courage to say:
>
>: I'am looking to get NIS working on a group of FreeBSD PC's.
.
.
.
>FreeBSD's NIS client facilities are very similar to what you get with
>SunOS, with one exception: FreeBSD tries to use master.passwd.byname
>and master.passwd.byuid maps for a limited form of shadow password
>support through NIS. Is works best when used in conjunction with a
>FreeBSD NIS server. If your server doesn't have these maps, FreeBSD will
>use the standard passwd.byname and passwd.buiid maps instead. (You
>don't have to configure anything for this: it selects the right maps
>automagically.)
Hmm. Are there any special hoops that have to be leapt through
to convince the system to use passwd.by* for normal name lookups?
I'm trying to integrate 2.0.5 into my network, which uses a Linux
box for the server, and I can get ypbind to talk to my yp domain,
I can get ypcat to spit out passwd,by* (I don't have shadow
passwords here), but I can't for the life of me get getpwby*() to
actually get at the yellow pages when I try to log in.
____
david parsons \bi/ unfortunately, the manpages haven't been helpful, and
\/ from looking at the sources to libc, I think I'm doing
everything right, so I'm officially lost and confused.