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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help on NIS client
Date: 28 Jun 1996 14:09:30 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Paul Flores
(pflores@alpha1.phoenix.net) had the courage to say:
Couple of quick comments:
: Jin Guojun[ITG] (jin@gracie.lbl.gov) wrote:
: : I have installed NIS server on one FreeBSD machine by set following flags
: : in /etc/sysconfig:
: : nis_serverflags="-dns -k" #for 2.1R, or "-n" for 2.2-SNAP
: : yppasswddflags="-m /var/yp/master.passwd -s -f"
Note that these yppasswdd options are for 2.1.x. For 2.2, you need
to use -t instead of -m, and the -s anf -f flags have had their polarity
switched. This is all documented in the rpc.yppasswdd(8) man page. If
you're wondering why it's different, it's because the 2.1.0 yppasswdd
was written by someone else (Olaf Kirch in this case), and I wrote a
completely new rpc.yppasswdd for 2.2. I decided to have 'updage GECOS'
and 'update shell' on by default, and I needed the -m flag for the
'multidomain' option. The only other flag I could think of to use
for the old -m function was -t ('template' file).
: : defaultdomainname=test
: : cd /var/yp
: : echo NISServName > ypservers
I think 'echo NISServName NISServName > ypservers' is needed here.
Maps need both key and data fields. In this case, they happen to be
the same.
: : echo $subnet $netmask > securenets
: : make
: : reboot
: : ----------------------------------------
: : On a NIS client machine, I did this in /etc/sysconfig:
: : nis_clientflags="-s"
: : nis_ypsetflags="NISServName"
: : defaultdomainname=test
: : reboot
: : ypwhich
: : NISServName
: : ypcat passwd | grep myname
: : myname:password-encrypted:uid:....
: : cd ~myname
: : Unknown user: myname.
: : Would some one please point what I missed?
: Might be too simple, but I will ask anyway...
: Did you remember the +:::::::: in the passwd file?
: Paul Flores
Looks like he didn't. :) Not also that putting +::: in /etc/group is
a good idea too.
-Bill
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