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From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can't login via NIS
Date: 7 May 1996 08:41:56 -0500
Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <4ml2an$d20@mistral.toppoint.de>,
Kai Voigt <kai@mistral.toppoint.de> wrote:
:I have two FreeBSD 2.1.0-R machines, one is running ypserv, the
:other one ypbind.  finger(1) on the client knows the users on
:the server, so I assume that I got NIS properly installed.  All
:other checks with ypwhich, ypcat, etc do also work.

do both the NIS server and the NIS client use the DES? It is concievable
that you are using two different encrypting methods; one on the server and
the other on the client.

--mark.