From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 20:50:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14015 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 20:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from greeves.mfn.org (greeves.mfn.org [204.238.179.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14006 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 20:50:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from noc.mfn.org (noc.mfn.org [204.238.179.35]) by greeves.mfn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA00724; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:50:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: by noc.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BDB10C.1FA45830@noc.mfn.org>; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:50:26 +0100 Message-ID: <01BDB10C.1FA45830@noc.mfn.org> From: "sysadmin@mfn.org" To: "sysadmin@mfn.org" , "'Doug White'" Cc: "'-Questions'" Subject: RE: rdist oddity Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:50:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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