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From: ctkwan@cs.hku.hk (Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~})
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD as an NIS client how?
Date: 15 Jul 1996 05:35:48 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong
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I have a Linux box running on my LAN as an NIS server. Recently I have
install FreeBSD on an machine and I would like to user the FreeBSD machine
as a client. I set up the necessary things I would expect on a typical
Unix NIS client (domainname, ypbind ...blah blah). The FreeBSD box is
able to talk with the NIS server and I can actuall get NIS maps with
ypcat on the client. Groups work properly when I added a "+" at the
end of /etc/group. However, I could not make the FreeBSD box to use
the passwd NIS map. I tried atting a "+" to both /etc/passwd and
/etc/master.passwd but it does not work. What gives? Do to have to
use shadow password on the Linux box and make an NIS map for
mater.passwd also?
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Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~}
Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
The University of Hong Kong