From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jun 5 22:25:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C704914D10 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:25:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.224]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28347; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:25:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <375A0656.20DC59A7@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 23:25:42 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Nowlin Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS strangeness References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message