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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NIS client under FreeBSD
Date: 11 Sep 1996 14:12:16 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Dirk Kleinhesselink
(dkleinh@isotope.ps.uci.edu) had the courage to say:

:    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)

Did you read the passwd(5) man page in FreeBSD where it tells you how to
turn on NIS passwd map support? For now, all you have to do is add:

+::::::::: to /etc/master.passwd (using vipw!!!!)

and

+::: to /etc/group

Don't try to get clever by adding *'s or 0's to some of the fields in
+:::::::::. The passwd(5) man page explains exactly why you shouldn't
do that and what will happen if you do.

FreeBSD is perfectly happy being a client to a SunOS or other NIS server
that doesn't support master.passwd.bywhatever maps.

-Bill

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