From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 18 19:56:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04780 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:56:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f137.hotmail.com [207.82.251.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA04677 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:56:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfrodo42@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 11161 invoked by uid 0); 19 Sep 1998 02:55:36 -0000 Message-ID: <19980919025536.11160.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 204.238.179.16 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:55:36 PDT X-Originating-IP: [204.238.179.16] From: "Jane Frodo" To: jegelhof@cloud9.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:55:36 PDT 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). I have been holding out for 3.0... > >1) Do a ypcat master.passwd as root and see if you see the passwords. yes. I see the full passwords, on those accounts that have them. Try >doing a finger -m username and make sure you see appropriate information. Yes. Exactly correct for each of the ones I tried ( a random smattering of the 300 or so records) >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. I have installed all five boxes here, and I installed Kerberos, and DES on all of them. Just to be sure, I checked the "native" passwords on each machine, and none of them are using the $1 headers, they all look to be of the same type. The >comparisons fail without any kind of warning or notice, which some people >might consider a bug. Yes, I would consider it a bug... BillG. would probably consider it a feature, and charge extra for it... :) > >-james Jane ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message