From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 06:57:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA20187 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 06:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA20181 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 06:57:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Received: from [140.228.15.35] (asterion.onu.edu [140.228.15.35]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29370; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:57:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <01BDAF98.83291780@noc.mfn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:58:10 -0400 To: "sysadmin@mfn.org" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" From: Robert Beer Subject: Re: The NIS problem: a little more info... Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:30 PM -0400 7/14/1998, sysadmin@mfn.org wrote: > 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) Have you checked whether the NIS server is supplying DES encrypted or MD5 encrypted passwords? Take a look at: ls -l /usr/lib/*crypt* Also in /etc/master.passwd, I believe that MD5 style encrypted passwords start with $1. --- Bob Beer Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message