Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:36:26 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: ryan@positronic.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS login problem Message-ID: <200001131636.LAA63200@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Ryan Snedegar <ryan@positronic.net> of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:44:56 PST." <20000112204456.A29305@shell.jellydonut.com>
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>I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 3.4 workstation on our LAN at work and having a > problem. We use NIS (not +) from a Sun Solaris 2.5.1 server. I *think* I hav >e everything set up properly for FreeBSD to be an NIS client. I'm not above m >aking mistakes, so if something is wrong in what I've done let me know. >Per the FreeBSD Ezine, and other messages in the mailing list archives page, I > changed the /etc/master.passwd, group, hosts, host.conf, master.passwd, passw >d. The +::??????? entries are at the end of each appropriate file. I have th >e following settings in rc.conf: >nis_client_enable="YES" >nis_client_flags="" >nis_ypset_enable="NO" >nis_ypset_flags="" > >I've tried with the client flags set to -s, -S domainname,servername and no op >tions. >Using the -S option gets me a bunch of restricted mode access list messages. > After reading messages in the mailing list archives, it seems that using no o >ptions is the best way to go. ypbind runs and doesn't complain, but I am unab >le to login using any of the NIS logins. ypwhich shows the correct server. I can use ypcat to get all sorts of good info > (passwd, group, netgroup). So when running ypbind with no options, what error do you get trying to login? -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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