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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Longer Usernames
Date: 26 Feb 1996 17:54:45 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Roland Jesse
(jesse@hppool.cs.uni-magdeburg.de) had the courage to say:
: In article <4gqiao$63v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu
(Bill Paul) writes:

: > : Oh my god, not that!  :-)  Does anyone really use NIS?
: > 
: > They better after all the work I've been putting into it. :)

: So, can you tell me what it means when ypbind complains that my NIS server
: (a Sun machine) is not in my 'mode access list' ? What exactly is this list ?

Read the error message again: it says 'restricted mode access list.'

You are running ypbind with the -S flag. What you really want is the -s
flag. Edit /etc/sysconfig and change the starup flags for ypbind to "-s"
instead of "-S" and restart ypbind. Then it will work.

Restricted mode lets you give ypbind a single domain and list of servers
to use for binding: if the specify the -S flag and the appropriate arguments,
ypbind will bind _only_ the one domain and it will bind _only_ to the
servers specified in the list. It still broadcasts to find servers, but
it only honors replies from the servers you specify. The syntax looks
like this:

# ypbind -S some.nis.domain,ypserver1,ypserver2,ypserver3

(Up to 10 server names can be specified.)

Of course, if you use the -S flag with no arguments, it won't bind
to anybody. :)

This information may not be in the man page for the following reason:
restricted mode was supposed to be new with FreeBSD 2.2, but it somehow
slipped into the release tree a little early and got shipped with 2.1.
Unfortunately, the changes to the man page that document the -S flag
did not get pulled along for the ride.

-Bill

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