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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:25:06 +0000
From:      Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
To:        kitsune <kitsune@gmx.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS problems      solved
Message-ID:  <20040125002506.GB1551@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040124160751.39a25087@vixen42.>
References:  <20040124124732.2024ebae@vixen42.> <20040124160751.39a25087@vixen42.>

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On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:07:51PM -0600, kitsune wrote:
> 
> Found my problem... a pwd_mkdb is required... but not mentioned in the
> hand book...

The handbook section dealing with setting up NIS clients tells you to use
'vipw' to edit master.passwd, which will make sure that a pwd_mkdb is done.

	Scott

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