From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jun 5 21:56:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3b169.neo.rr.com [24.93.181.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E770414E64 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 21:56:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA02831 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 01:01:48 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 01:01:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: NIS strangeness Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If this has been answered, smack me and tell me where to find the answer -- I can't..... Built a new 3.1-RELEASE machine to replace a 2.8-STABLE one -- moved all the important stuff over, and ran into a problem with NIS: As "mike" (my normal user) on the new box, "finger kathleen" works fine -- returns all the user data from the NIS server without any problems. When "mike" is su'd "root", "finger kathleen" returns "no such user". But when "mike" is su'd "root", "ypcat passwd" returns the full NIS password file as it should. Can't log in as "kathleen", either. Is this something dumb I'm not noticing, or is a "feature"? Thanks -- Mike mike@argos.org mike@viewsnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message