From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 18 19:03:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27803 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:03:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27798 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:03:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jegelhof@cloud9.net) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (IDENT:tK47Q+/A00y0B3pI5b0wSr9d7V6ezeTN@earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0/rc-19980602) with SMTP id WAA02006; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:02:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 22:02:49 -0400 (EDT) From: James Egelhof To: Jane Frodo cc: dhw@whistle.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS In-Reply-To: <19980918234952.2581.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Jane Frodo wrote: > This is what *really* freaks me: I can check the binding on ypwhich, > and I can see the NIS maps using all the standard tools, but the clients > can't seem to use them for logging in or changing passwords... First, you should upgrade your machines from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7. We had a lot of problems with yp on 2.2.5 that all went away with 2.2.6 (and 2.2.7). 1) Do a ypcat master.passwd as root and see if you see the passwords. Try doing a finger -m username and make sure you see appropriate information. This way we will at least know you really are getting the maps correctly. 2) If you installed the special DES package on the NIS master, you must also install that package on the NIS clients. Otherwise the machines will not be able to check entered passwords against the password file. The comparisons fail without any kind of warning or notice, which some people might consider a bug. -james --- James Egelhof jegelhof@cloud9.net Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. +1 (914) 696-4000 White Plains, New York http://www.cloud9.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message