Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:55:36 PDT From: "Jane Frodo" <jfrodo42@hotmail.com> To: jegelhof@cloud9.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS Message-ID: <19980919025536.11160.qmail@hotmail.com>
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>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
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