Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:50:25 +0100 From: "sysadmin@mfn.org" <sysadmin@mfn.org> To: "sysadmin@mfn.org" <sysadmin@mfn.org>, "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "'-Questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: rdist oddity Message-ID: <01BDB10C.1FA45830@noc.mfn.org>
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Oh yes, the magic word is there, BUT... (1) I feel like an IDIOT about the rdist: my .rhosts wasn't mode 600. And of course enabling world-read/write while "tracking it down" didn't help either 8-> I could just hit myself in the head with a *pipe*!!! (2) I come from an SVR3/4 background, as you know, and I'm not used to having 3 files associated with my users: passwd, master.passwd, and pw.db (I may have that last one wrong, but you know what I mean). The .db file tripped me up! That will take getting used to... I will have to get out of the habit of direct edits, which, as we all know, is an atrocious habit anyway... Thanks Anyway! J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org ---------- From: Doug White Sent: Thursday, July 16, 1998 10:27 PM To: sysadmin@mfn.org Cc: '-Questions' Subject: Re: rdist oddity On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, sysadmin@mfn.org wrote: > Greets... > > Added a server last night, and when we ran our daily > rdist, we got "Permission Denied" from that host. I can't figure > out *why*... In the process of trying to figure this out, I have: > > (1) Enabled *every* r-service in inetd.conf > (2) Put world-write and read on every file and directory in the box (no, > I don't plan to leave it this way :) > (3) Made sure that RDIST was running as root > (4) Pulled out lots and lots of hairs.... :( > > To top it off: this guy doesn't "get" NIS. I get the proper > responses from ypwhich, ycat passwd, domainname, etc., ypbind > *is* running, but it won't login anyone not in the local passwd file! Is the magic word "+:::::::::" in the master password file? 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
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