From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 26 14:45:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from admin.us.net (admin.us.net [198.240.72.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B55915014 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:45:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jjw@admin.us.net) Received: from admin.us.net (admin.ofc.us.net [198.240.65.1]) by admin.us.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03527; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 18:06:24 -0500 (EST) X-Provider: US Net - Advanced Internet Services - 301-361-USNET - info@us.net Where Business Connects! (tm) -- http://www.us.net/ Message-ID: <36D7051F.7A90B7FA@admin.us.net> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:33:35 -0500 From: John Woodruff Organization: US Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Hovey Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange nis/application problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Steve Hovey wrote: > While the boxes would let a NIS based user log in - pine reported it > couldnt figure out who a nis user was, and wouldnt expand the to: line > names of people that were NIS based > [...] > I wrote test programs to work out the getpw.. routines - and they > were fine. Were you doing it as root or not? The FreeBSD nis client looks at different maps depending on whether you are running as root; and the FreeBSD ypserv gives different answers depending on whether the request comes from a <1024 port or not. > I overwrote the ones on 2.2.5 with the one from 2.1.5 and the problem > cleared. Yikes! Who wants to enumerate the differences in the libc.so's ?? -- John Woodruff, Sr. Network Engineer, US Net - 301-361-USNET Washington/Baltimore/Richmond ISP - $6.95/month for full PPP! PGP KeyFP: 66 18 1A 4E 55 08 40 E2 C7 B1 F2 D1 81 12 6D BF To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message