Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:48:23 +0300 (EEST) From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re(2) root & group access with NIS (and weirdness!) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008102110290.87357-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <20000810003822.D5405@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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Ok its not a very good idea. I accept it but is there any other way to change the root password in a set of machines easily without logging on each of them etc.? What do you mean by null root passwords? can you give an example? I tried +root::::::::: instead of root:0:0.... Somehow this approach works fine for other users but for the root user when I use 'ls -la' I get 0 in the username field of the output. when I want to use ssh it says 'You don't exist, go away!' even when I put +::::::::: it still says the same. Is this some kind of trick for the root user when nis is used? Also I have another problem I want to allow users to login according to their GID how can I make this work? I read somewhere NIS in FreeBSD is able to use 'group' file instead of 'netgroups' file and it works fine but the problem is somehow I explicitly write the users name to 'group' file to make it work it doesnt work if the staff GID number is 20 and the user has 20 in the master.passwd entry of his/her. How can I allow 1000s of users to login without making a netgroup file with 1000s of users just with their native GID fields from the master.passwd file? Thank you very much! Evren On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:00:02PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > I want the machines in my network to get root passwords from the NIS > > server. How can I do that? > > Why not just put null root passwords on all machines or give all users > uid 0? > > Putting root in the passwd NIS maps is a Very Bad Idea(tm). > > But if you still want to do it, just get root in the map and make sure > the '+' in the files on the clients comes before any root entry. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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