Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 16:44:53 -0500 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS gods angry Message-ID: <200211071644.53319.timothyk@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200211072029.gA7KTgLL002386@beast.csl.sri.com> References: <200211072029.gA7KTgLL002386@beast.csl.sri.com>
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Thanks for the replies, guys, it's (freakin' finally) working.
When I vipw 'ed on the client machine, I found a space between the last entry
and the +::::::::: I deleted it, and saved the file.
Before I hupped ypbind (for the millionth time), I sshed over to the NIS
Server and had a look in /var/yp/nemesis
The ypservers file contained one line of unreadable characters (lots of
@@@@^Z/^A and the like). I checked my /var/yp/atropos/ypservers file on my
home network (domainname atropos) and found one line with
10.0.1.2 10.0.1.2
(the private address of my NIS server at home)
I went back onto the server at work and changed the line in ypservers to:
ipaddress ipaddress
(using the real numbers, of course)
I rebooted the server, rebooted the client machine and went out and bought a
fresh pack of cigarettes.
When I got back, I logged back onto the client and typed:
dhcp198-6# truss su -l zooba
(whole lot of stuff scrolls by...)
zooba@dhcp198-6 ('tty') ~ 1 ->
Bang! it worked!
I don't know if it was the extra blank line before the +::::::::: in
/etc/master.passwd was the culprit or the weird characters in
/var/yp/ypservers. I did some reading to try and find out if
/var/yp/ypservers was supposed to be garbled/encrypted but I could find out
anything useful. Hopefully, I haven't borked some security by entering plain
text into the file.
By the way, the ending string in my /etc/group file is :*::
I haven't changed that (yet)
Thank you all so much, my hair was coming out in fistfulls.
Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT
On Thursday 07 November 2002 03:29 pm, Mike Hogsett wrote:
> > Definitely sounds like a problem with the + line in the passwd file.
> > Run vipw, and verify that
> >
> > +:::::::::
> >
> > is at the bottom. If it still doesn't work, try truss'ing "id -u
> > zoomba" and verify that it's reading the NIS files and doing network
> > calls.
>
> Don't forget to add
>
> +:::
>
> to /etc/group also.
>
> - Mike Hogsett
>
>
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