From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 29 22:57:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA29434 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:57:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA29429 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:57:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA23724; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:57:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:57:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Carey Nairn cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: yp problems between 2.2.5 and 2.0.5 In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980324095401.009eb980@mailroom.dpac.tas.gov.au> 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 Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Carey Nairn wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a problem with a new installation of 2.2.5 on a machine in relation > to yp. > > Having set up the new machine as a yp client on our network, I seem to get > some things to work but not others. If I do a ypwhich, the command returns > the name of a valid server and other functions such as ypcat seem to work > OK. The point at which I get problems is when trying to authenticate a > user from the yp database. This fails every time. > > The server is running 2.0.5 and the client is running 2.2.5 > Both machines are using (Non-US) DES for encryption. > > any thoughts? Did you remember to put the magic sequence +::::::::: into the password file with vipw? 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