From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 20 10:12:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA21902 for current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA21895 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 10:12:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) id NAA29605; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:10:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:10:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Bill Paul cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS problem In-Reply-To: <199603200731.CAA10198@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, Bill Paul wrote: > > I've set the appropriate settings in sysconfig, and am running > > ypbind -s on that machine, but try as I might, I can't login to that > > machine unless the user entry is in the password file on that machine. > > There's stuff missing here. Editing sysconfig is not all there is > to it (though I'm sure people would like it to be that way :). You > need to add +::::::::: to the end of /etc/master.passwd and rebuild That did it...I had put +:+:::::::: in my master.passwd file ;( Works now, thanks. > Read the passwd(5) man page when modifying /etc/master.passwd. Don't > get clever with the magic '+' entries unless you know what you're > doing. Don't use +:*::::::::. Don't use +::0:0::::::. Don't use > any combination thereof. This is not SunOS. Don't expect everything > to work the same. > Ack...I looked through every YP man page I could find, but didn't even think to look at passwd(5)...sorry for wasting time :( It works now, thanks ... Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc