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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.
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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.
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