Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:39:03 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jfrodo42@hotmail.com Subject: Re: NIS Message-ID: <199809182339.QAA24274@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19980918210053.22489.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>From: "Jane Frodo" <jfrodo42@hotmail.com>
>Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:00:52 PDT
>I am using 2.2.5, on a really smal (5 machine) network: all
>tcp/ip based.
>On the master NIS machine, I put the magic cookie (+:::::::::) in
>the passwd file, and the appropriate magic cookies everywhere
>else, and have the master acting as a client as well.
>The master machine is fine.
What OS does it run? If FreeBSD, how did you update "the passwd file"?
(Using vipw is what I'd recommend; /etc/passwd is merely a generated
file, so manipulating it directly isn't usually a Good Idea.)
Where is your NIS source file for the various *passwd* maps (vs. the
file that would be used if NIS weren't an issue)? (For example, I put
the source files for my NIS maps in /var/yp/src/`domainname` on the NIS
master... and whacked /var/yp/Makefile accordingly. However, the NIS
master would still normally look at the /etc directory for the non-NIS
information.)
>The clients are not though...
>I did everything the same on the clients, and they answer
>correctly to a ypwhich, but I can't login using NIS passwords: now
>the strange part: I *can* see the NIS passwords when I use
>ypcat passwd, so I *know* the file is making it over! What did
>I do wrong here?
Well, if you can see encrypted passwords in the NIS maps, and your NIS
master is FreeBSD, the default is that you should *not* see encrypted
passwords (unless you look at the master.passwd.by{name,uid} maps).
Seems to me that a little more information about your setup is in order,
though possibly one of the cleverer folks around here can set you
straight right away.
david
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