From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 16:17:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05190 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA05070 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:16:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 33072 invoked from network); 13 Mar 1998 00:14:03 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 13 Mar 1998 00:14:03 -0000 Received: from barnowl.roost.net (apm5-190.realtime.net [205.238.146.190]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA27537; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:14:00 -0600 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:18:48 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl.roost.net To: Doug White cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: NIS, no luck :-( In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, John Kenagy wrote: > > > Ok, I'm lost. > > > > I've been through the man pages, dogeared the Hal Stern book, > > and only spent two evenings getting my network to run again while > > trying to set up NIS. Between one server and one client, no less! > > DId you find *all* the man pages, esp. yp(8) and ypserv(8)? If its possible, the characters are faded from over use.;-) I feel that I'm missing something crashingly obvious, but what? > > Since I cannot log on to any users in the map I think the append never > > happens. What, exactly is the syntax of the "+" key usage in this > > implementation. > > +::::::::, I think. Count my colons, it should correspond to the number > of fields in /etc/passwd. In the book by Stern (O'Reilly), the fields are sometimes filled with zero or, an asterisk, as in +:*::0:0:::: etc. for expanding group and user IDs. This is also used to replace some of the fields in the global map with local values. The asterisk is for password protection. Are these syntactic conventions for the Sun platform or general to FreeBSD also? Such an entry resulted in failures during login. User name went in ok, but the password was never prompted for. I had to reboot in single user to clear the system. Oh, well, I do this for the challenge, right? ...right? ...? Thanks again, John > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message