From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 14: 7:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BE237B74B for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:07:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-73-229.netcologne.de [213.168.73.229]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA28719; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 23:07:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e78J4bL70212; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:04:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:04:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: David Thiel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more fun NIS problems In-Reply-To: <39904FB1.52470D98@nexprise.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi David, On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, David Thiel wrote: > I tried ypserv -d, and no suspicious output was there - all the yp* > commands appear normal, the only thing I could possibly think of is when > I did a ypcat passwd, the root account was in the middle of the password > file instead of its usual position at the top. Would that make any > difference? In theory no, but position in the local /etc/passwd is important. The fact that everything looks OK yp-wise probably means that you have a local problem. In most NIS situations you have all local accounts first (like root, toor, etc.) and then the "+:::::::::" very last. Other orderings may produce results you may (or may not) want. man 5 passwd goes at length to explain how ordering is important. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message