From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 23:47:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA20850 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 23:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA20844 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 23:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.0-4 #13110) id <01I5I6PKGPM8000VMX@mail.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 04 Jun 1996 08:47:09 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA08078 for freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com; Tue, 04 Jun 1996 08:51:45 +0200 Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 08:51:45 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: NIS/ypbind (passwd) To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Message-id: <199606040651.IAA08078@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm running FreeBSD as a NIS server with a hand full of clients. It seems to be necessary to run ypbind also on the server otherwise I would be getting that clnt_something rpc error message during e.g. every xterm login. OTOH, running ypbind results in not letting me set the local password for root for example. I always get ' setting NIS password' when using the passwd command. I would expect that the server behaves like everyhing being local. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de