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Date:      Sat, 05 Jun 1999 23:25:42 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS strangeness
Message-ID:  <375A0656.20DC59A7@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.05.9906060055460.2799-100000@jason.argos.org>

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Mike Nowlin wrote:
> 
> 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.

Did you add the +::::::: entry to the passwd file?
Be sure to do group as well, if that's the problem.  ;^)

-- 
       "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                 Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr                      wes@softweyr.com


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