From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 29 22:50:27 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 98F5016A4D0 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 22:50:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tmgcon.com (tmgcon.com [128.121.216.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D8B43D3F for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 22:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@tmgcon.com) Received: from kereru.tmgcon1.co.nz (219-88-197-144.jetstream.xtra.co.nz [219.88.197.144]) by tmgcon.com (8.12.11/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i4U5oPBa002902 for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 06:50:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kereru.tmgcon1.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52562D007 for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 17:50:20 +1200 (NZST) Received: from kereru.tmgcon1.co.nz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kereru.tmgcon1.co.nz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 61341-06 for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 17:50:20 +1200 (NZST) Received: from gentoo (unknown [192.168.0.64]) by kereru.tmgcon1.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 262D8D006 for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 17:50:20 +1200 (NZST) From: Tom Munro Glass Organization: TMG Consultancy Ltd To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 17:50:14 +1200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200405301405.59995.tom@tmgcon.com> <20040529201221.GE28582@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> In-Reply-To: <20040529201221.GE28582@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405301750.14665.tom@tmgcon.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at tmgcon1.co.nz 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 05:50:27 -0000 > 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. > So how does Linux authenticate the password? 'ypwhich -m' shows passwd.byname, passwd.byuid, master.passwd.byname, master.passwd.byuid but of course there is no shadow.byname or shadow.byuid. I believe that I have the passwd and group files set up correctly on the Linux machines, and I don't really know where to look next. Tom