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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 15:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neill Thornton <neillt@realgoods.com>
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Subject: NIS questions...
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I am having problems with NIS entries in the passwd files being used
during the login process, i.e. someone will try to log in to the BSD
machine (which is an NIS client) and it will deny them access.  I tried
reading all the man pages on yp/NIS that FreeBSD has, but they aren't
offering any suggestive clues.  Here is the setup:

Server: IBM RS/6000 running AIX 3.12.
Client: Pentium running FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE

You can ypcat the passwd table while on the machine, and get the entries
off of the RS/6000:

elwood# ypcat passwd | tail                                             
debra:Huxb5kAAKsLVA:267:1:Debra Dix:/u/users/debra:/bin/ksh             
chris:JXs9FFc7YFIxM:206:1:Christine Christensen:/u/users/chris:/bin/ksh 
nena:4Oe0KyYJalgY2:235:1:Nena Burgess:/u/users/nena:/bin/ksh            
nayo:CnEfeHIZYmDeA:295:1:Nayo Sicard:/u/users/nayo:/bin/ksh             
mark:MbL3ad6vhWbLs:319:1:Mark Winkler:/u/users/mark:/bin/ksh            
jill:ByRGgbDXuFvaQ:241:1:Jill Miller:/u/users/jill:/bin/ksh             
bill:fE.2Rx3wBipkM:226:1:Bill Simmons:/u/users/bill:/bin/ksh            
tom:HjwN6S/yocJOc:224:1:Tom Moen:/u/users/tom:/bin/ksh                  
ann:h6pM7HaKJ8uIs:287:1:Ann Dutra:/u/users/ann:/bin/ksh                 

and I have the following entry at the end of my /etc/master.passwd:

+:::::::::

which (after vipw) put this in the /etc/passwd

+:*:0:0:::

but when a user tries to log in, they get:

jake: {10}telnet elwood                   
Trying...                                 
Connected to elwood.realgoods.com.        
Escape character is '^]'.                 
                                          
   FreeBSD (elwood.realgoods.com) (ttyp0) 
                                          
login: tester                             
Password:                                 
Login incorrect                           
login:                                     


I am wondering if the entries in the passwd tables are screwed up, or if
FreeBSD just does not like AIX...  any help or clues would be appreciated.

TIA

Neill

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Neill Thornton
Network Administator, Real Goods Trading Corp.
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