From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jun 5 23:35:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from zip.com.au (zipper.zip.com.au [203.12.97.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F4414BD0 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:35:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb@zip.com.au) Received: from localhost (ncb@localhost) by zip.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA05894; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:32:17 +1000 Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 16:32:17 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Brawn To: Wes Peters Cc: Mike Nowlin , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS strangeness In-Reply-To: <375A0656.20DC59A7@softweyr.com> 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 On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > 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. ;^) Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't that a security hazard? Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message