Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:03:19 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Justin Burdine <burdine@oakland.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: yppasswd NIS problem with Freebsd client and Solaris NIS server Message-ID: <20030625190319.GA43269@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3EF9EE4E.5050007@oakland.edu> References: <3EF9EE4E.5050007@oakland.edu>
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In the last episode (Jun 25), Justin Burdine said: > Anyone else had this problem? > > All of my Freebsd boxes 4.6-4.8 connect to my Solaris 8 NIS servers > with out any troubles. They are able to authenticate and get all the > maps that they need in order to operate. However, I have never been > able to change my NIS password from them. Eventhough this works from > all of my Solaris 8 NIS clients. I have changed the default > passwd_format to des and ran cap_mkdb. What error do you get? > I did run across this posting: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/53721 That applies to NIS servers. Root on an NIS client has no extra privs. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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