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From: Alex Maranda <alex@arrakis.comm.pub.ro>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NIS client config - passwd/group entry
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:15:18 +0200
Organization: Institute of MicroTechnology
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Hello, is anybody out there to help a man too tired to think :-( ?
I switched a bunch of PC's (3 to be exact) from Linux to FreeBSD 2.1.0.
I want to keep my NFS with a HP workstation - On Linux I resolved the
authentification by simply hacking the /etc/passwd from HP and copying
it to clients.
..tried to do the same on FreeBSD (after installing DES) but with no
succes.
The passwd man page keep talking about Kerberos and differences from
historic V7 format , pwd_mkdb complains about corrupted data files
...are the passwords stored in binary format in /etc/pwd.db or it's just
my imagination ?
I finally decided to move the whole thing to NIS. After one day of work
I have the NIS server up and running on HP, and I also managed to
configure the NIS clients
( I mean that at least I can see from FreeBSD the NIS maps with ypcat )
However, it's still useless, because when I try to append the beloved
+::0:0:::
respectively +: to passwd - master.passwd / group files, all I can get
is login
incorrect/user does not exist; If I run pwd_mkdb on the damn passwd of
course I get
"corrupted data file"...generally speaking, after 10 hours it became
clear to me that
the authentification scheme in FreeBSD is beyond my limited imagination
or it is too
obvious to see it. Meanwhile I sit here looping { for(;;); }
PLEASE send me a signal, any number except 9.
Best regards,
Alex Maranda
Telecomm.Dept. - Polytechnical Univ. of Bucharest, Romania