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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!sgigate.sgi.com!news1.best.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!News.LiveNet.Net!valhalla From: jsloan@LiveNet.Net (Jim Sloan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an NIS client how? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 04:36:18 GMT Organization: LiveNet, Inc. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4sf682$3io_006@news.livenet.net> References: <4sclbk$b5l@ns.cs.hku.hk> NNTP-Posting-Host: valhalla.livenet.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 In article <4sclbk$b5l@ns.cs.hku.hk>, ctkwan@cs.hku.hk (Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~}) wrote: >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? > >-- >Doug Kwan ~{9XUq5B~} >Graduate Student >Department of Computer Science >The University of Hong Kong You can't just add to the /etc/master.passwd, use vipw, which will edit /etc/master.passwd then run pwd_mkdb to create the password database. If you just edit the /etc/master.passwd then you need to run pwd_mkdb to update the database. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Sloan jsloan@livenet.net Vice President LiveNet, Inc. 413 Davis St. Suite 106 Full Service Internet Provider Virginia Beach VA 23462 Dialup and dedicated connections Ph: 804-499-9328 Virtual Web, Email, and FTP hosting http://www.livenet.net info@livenet.net webmaster@livenet.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------