Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:39:00 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Hossein <falaki@ce.sharif.ac.ir> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS authontication problem. Message-ID: <20031214203900.GE17799@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312141807010.8818-100000@ce.sharif.ac.ir> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312141807010.8818-100000@ce.sharif.ac.ir>
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In the last episode (Dec 14), Hossein said: > In our department we are going to use a 5.1 Stable FreeBSD, and > it must run NIS client to authonticate the users through a Linux NIS > server. > The ypbind works well and when I do "ypcat passwd" I get the > enteries in the passwd of the NIS server. I added the correct lines > to passwd.master and group according to the handbook. But no user can > log in and in the /var/log/auth.log it apears that the password is > not corect. If you edited passwd.master directly, you may need to run "pwd_mkdb" to rebuild the spwd.db and pwd.db database files that the system uses. The "vipw" command does this automatically. Does "finger somenisuser" on the client print the right info? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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