From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 01:07:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409BF16A41F for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:07:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mjeung@cisdata.net) Received: from dagobah.cisdata.net (dagobah.cisdata.net [63.82.223.109]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0330543D49 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:07:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mjeung@cisdata.net) Received: from adsl-69-237-115-101.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net ([69.237.115.101] helo=[192.168.45.237]) by dagobah.cisdata.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52 (FreeBSD)) id 1EPraz-0003DO-E9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:09:21 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v728) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <7EF2E28D-9B5C-4D25-A7FE-B13B2CEC086B@cisdata.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-26-534464178; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" From: Michael Jeung Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:05:18 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.728) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: NIS on FreeBSD 5.4/4.11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:07:22 -0000 --Apple-Mail-26-534464178 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Good evening all, I am desperately trying to get NIS working in my FreeBSD 5.4 and 4.11 environment - specifically, I'm trying to get NIS set up such that a NIS client is able to change the password for an account. Like a good little rabbit, I have followed, step-by-step the NIS guide in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- nis.html In my test environment, I have two servers set up: BoxA and BoxB. BoxA is the NIS Master running 5.4, BoxB is the NIS client running 4.11. I have created a NIS user named "charlie" on BoxA. I am able to log into BoxB as charlie. Great so far, right? ypcat demonstrates that the correct user on BoxB is coming down and ypwhich passwd shows that BoxA is BoxB's daddy. Now, I want to be able to change "charlie"'s NIS password while I'm logged into BoxB. Here's where I run into problems. Whenever I run yppasswd or passwd as charlie, I get "Permission Denied." I know I've run into this error before (without ever being able to fix it) and after googling for quite some time, I've been unable to find anyone else who seems to be running into this problem -- but I know other people must have encountered this before, because I'm not doing anything fancy. This is the most vanilla install of NIS I can create. If anyone has any hints on where I should look from here, I would very much appreciate it! Thanks, Michael Jeung --Apple-Mail-26-534464178--