From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 22 20:59:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA26318 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA26313 for ; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:59:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 23156 invoked from network); 23 Nov 1998 02:25:02 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.183.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 23 Nov 1998 02:25:02 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm5-168.realtime.net [205.238.146.168]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA10989; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:26:19 -0600 Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:35:33 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Peter_Colby@res.raytheon.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP-UX NIS Client - FreeBSD NIS Server - login fails In-Reply-To: <852566C2.00753E16.00@ressud-as01.res.ray.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, 20 Nov 1998 Peter_Colby@res.raytheon.com wrote: > We are running a primarily freebsd network (2.2.7 or therabouts) but have a > couple of HP-UX 10.20 > workstations connected. FreeBSD is running the NIS server with HP being a > client. > The HP can see all of the maps but I can't get it to recognize any valid > user passwords from the passwd file. > The passwd file is mostly translated properly as I can SU to a YP user from > root, I just can't log in using any > user out of the YP passws files. > I need suggestions on how to enable the full access to yppasswd without > having to hand modify the > local passwd files on the HPs > > Thanks, > Peter Colby > Raytheon CNS/ATM > I've put up a small page covering my trials at setting up NIS at http://www.realtime.net/sculpture (follow the FreeBSD link) I'ts really for the novice but seems to have helped a number of people. I had a similar problem as you (I'm not running HPUX though.) Make sure you have all of your aliases absolutely sqeaky clean. Sorry for the slow reply. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message