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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-regensburg.de!rfhs0003!not-for-mail From: hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de (Hubert Feyrer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Yellow pages problem... Date: 16 May 1997 19:30:24 GMT Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5lickg$k4b@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> References: <337B6362.41C6@ssibm4.ssp.ameslab.gov> Reply-To: hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: rfhs0003.fh-regensburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 960901] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5962 Stephen Tow <stow@ssibm4.ssp.ameslab.gov> wrote: > I am trying to get yellow pages (NIS) to work on a NetBSD/i386 machine > but I don't seem to be making a connection. Actually I do seem to be > making a connection in that when I do a 'ypwhich', it's pointing to the > right yp server, but when I try and login, it doesn't recognize me. > ypbind is up and running...has anyone seen this before? Do I need to do > some extra configuration on the ypserver in order for it to service this > particular client? add the following line with vipw: +::::: (put in right ammount of dots, i dunno offhands) Also, add it to your local /etc/group (again, + as first field, then right ammount of :s) > PS Oh, while I'm at it...is it normal for tab completion/history lists > via arrow keys not to work? I've poked at gettytab, tset, stty, and have > even compiled the kernel with different settings (pc0/vt0) to get it to > work, but to no avail. Can anyone help me? I fall to pieces without tab > completeion because I'm a really slow typer :) You need a shell that supports tab completion/command line history. The further is supported by zsh, bash, tcsh, the latter is also supported by /bin/sh. Only /bin/sh comes with NetBSD, the rest you've to compile for yourself (or try to get some precompiled binary) Hubert