From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 12:58:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC5414BD6 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:58:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA010350293; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:58:13 -0500 Message-Id: <199911122058.AA010350293@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "J. Maynard Gelinas" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS client support in FreeBSD-3.3 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:30:08 EST." <199911122030.PAA05705@bbn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:58:11 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I note that according to the man nis I'm supposed to use the traditional >"+" tokens in each various /etc configuration file in order to facilitate the >inclusion of each respective NIS map, however vipw won't allow me to include a > >basic token such as: > >+:*:0:0::: > >in the password map. It just complains about a garbled entry and won't build >write the password file. It doesn't go in the password map, it goes in /etc/master.passwd, which has more fields in it that /etc/passwd. Try this: Edit /etc/master.passwd using vipw At the bottom add: +::::::::: (that's 9 ':'s) -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message