From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 3 10:31:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA23402 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 10:31:26 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA23396 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 10:31:23 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id MAA17187; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 12:30:21 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA13723; Tue, 3 Jan 95 12:29:33 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9501031829.AA13723@olympus> Subject: Re: nfs: how bad is it? To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 12:29:32 -0600 (CST) Cc: faulkner@devnull.mpd.tandem.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9501031802.AA05179@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 3, 95 11:02:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1231 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > I have made a FreeBSD 2.0 box a ypclient and nfs client at work. I can > > login to the box with my nfs shared home directory as my home. I can > > edit a file but if I save it, it saves with 0 length. I cannot create > > a file. I have the same uid and gid I do from the Sun but the /etc/group > > file is not set to use NIS. > > > > Has anyone else done this and had it work? > > Yes, I have. > > The problem is the format of the entry that goes at the end of the group > file; unfortunately, I can't access my system right now, and it changed > from 1.1.5 to 2.0 anyway. > > This really should be a simple '+' or '+:', but is not. > > > Terry Lambert Using +: breaks logging in. The connection will close. I tried without changing /etc/group. ls -als shows the group as designated in my /etc/group according to the number given by NIS. I fixed my /etc/group to have the same entry as yp but no dice. Permission denied. The gid is 9, the man group. Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@mpd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________________