From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 19:30:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28326 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from greeves.mfn.org (greeves.mfn.org [204.238.179.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28317 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from noc.mfn.org (noc.mfn.org [204.238.179.35]) by greeves.mfn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00372 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 21:30:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: by noc.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BDAF98.83291780@noc.mfn.org>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 02:30:20 +0100 Message-ID: <01BDAF98.83291780@noc.mfn.org> From: "sysadmin@mfn.org" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: The NIS problem: a little more info... Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 02:30:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings... As you know, I have a machine which doesn't seem to grok NIS. I put the ypserv into debug mode to watch the transactions, and to my surprise, everything looks in order - except that this box won't believe what it's told! (1) The box binds to my NIS server (2) It does abunch of queries/loads: groups, passwd, etc... (3) When I type in a login name not in it's local password file, it requests the appropriate record from NIS, and is given the proper response. (4) When I type in the password, it complains the login is invalid, & goes back to (3) I've done this from other machines as well, for comparison sake, and there does not appear to be *any* difference in the traffic exchanged between my NIS server and either of these two boxes. I've checked the following to be sure they were *identical* (including permissions) to a box which is NIS-OK... /etc: netgroup, passwd, master.passwd, protocols, rpc, services, hosts, host.conf, group, login.conf. I'm totally out of ideas here... J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message