From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 19:33:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA01195 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:33:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA01188 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA02436; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:27:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199607130227.TAA02436@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NIS questions... To: neillt@realgoods.com Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 19:27:41 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Neill Thornton" at Jul 12, 96 03:04:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 You installed the DES package so that the password is created from the user password being DES encrypted instead of MD5 checksummed, right? IOf not, make sure you do it as root and reset your root password (or unset it) so you will be able to log in... your current passwords local to the machine will be invalid. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.