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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:32:50 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        RA Cohen <roy2098@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu
Message-ID:  <44fxxxphbh.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <54129.66383.qm@web54201.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (RA Cohen's message of "Tue\, 18 Dec 2007 14\:11\:14 -0800 \(PST\)")
References:  <54129.66383.qm@web54201.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

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RA Cohen <roy2098@yahoo.com> writes:

> I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post:
>
>>>Somehow Ubuntu was given root user
>  permissions<<
>
> Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu was only given permissions of the user doing the login - not root - but we could login with any valid user apparently FreeBSD thought it was presented with a wildcard password.
>
> And I can also verify that FreeBSD clients are able to use the password map when x is used instead of * in the map to represent the password. So I can secure the system using the x but still cannot get Ubuntu clients to authenticate.

Sounds like Ubuntu is using the wrong map, probably one where it's
getting a different and empty field where it expects to find a password.



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