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From: dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu (Dirk Kleinhesselink)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: NIS client under FreeBSD
Date: 11 Sep 96 04:39:23 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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Message-ID: <dkleinh.842416763@isotope.ps.uci.edu>
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Summary: Trying to run NIS client on FreeBSD - can't log in
Keywords: NIS, FreeBSD
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #6 (NOV)
We are using NIS to allow users to log in to several local machines
with the same userids and passwords. Our NIS servers are a SUN OS Sparc
and a SGI running IRIX. I enabled the NIS client on my FreeBSD box
(in /etc/sysconfig) (I'm running 2.1.5-Release) and it (ypbind) starts
up ok, and the ypcat and ypmatch utilities function correctly, but when
a user whose userid and password come from the server tries to login,
the password/userid combination is not accepted. Anyone using NIS with
FreeBSD or have an idea why it fails ? Maybe because of FreeBSD shadow
password vs. Sun OS/IRIX non-shadow ?
Thanks,
Dirk (dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu)