From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 29 20:00:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658C816A4CE for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 20:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C3D43D48 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 20:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com) Received: from pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.212]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HYI00GK9B0N21@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 21:00:23 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.149]) by pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0HYI00I5RB0NV1U0@pd4mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 21:00:23 -0600 (MDT) Received: from francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (S010600609761a671.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.202.31]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HYI00G7SB0M89@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 21:00:23 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com [192.168.23.1]) by francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4U3DtIh086360; Sat, 29 May 2004 20:13:55 -0700 Received: from hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (localhost.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com [127.0.0.1]) by hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4TKCM0r001791; Sat, 29 May 2004 13:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from aardvark@localhost) by hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i4TKCMRx009756; Sat, 29 May 2004 13:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 13:12:22 -0700 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted In-reply-to: <200405301405.59995.tom@tmgcon.com> To: Tom Munro Glass Message-id: <20040529201221.GE28582@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i References: <200405301405.59995.tom@tmgcon.com> X-Authentication-warning: hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com: aardvark set sender to aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com using -f cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 03:00:24 -0000 Tom Munro Glass disturbed my sleep to write: > I've set up NIS server as described in the handbook, and if I run > ypcat on the Linux client, it is obtaining information from the server. > However, it is faiing to authenticate users defined on the FreeBSD machine. > Should this work, or is there a problem with the differences between how > FreeBSD/Linux use the passwd file? This should work; I've got a Linux machine at work succesfully authenticating NIS accounts against a FreeBSD server. I believe that the differences in passwd files are strictly in the master.passwd (FreeBSD) and shadow (Linux) files; the files /etc/passwd have the same format in both OS'. I'd suspect problems in the way the clients have been configured. Check that the password and group files have been set up correctly (I screw up the sequence of plus signs and colons regularly), and that the NIS domain has been set. Hope that helps! -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.