From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 19: 7: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6DD37B404 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:06:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1136eV37301; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:06:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:06:40 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Zilong Wang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with nis server setup Message-ID: <20020201030639.GA92838@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3C5A049F.CB428610@borland.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C5A049F.CB428610@borland.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 01), Zilong Wang said: > Hi gurus, > > I experienced a strang problem with nis server setup when trying to > change users' passwd from nis clients. > > I just setup a FreeBSD 4.3-release yp server and client is Solaris 8 > machine. Actually the procedure is pretty simple, however, I did have > trouble to change passwd in the end. I created my master.passwd file as > follows: > > ... > zlwang::126:888:0:0:zlwang:/export/home/zlwang:/bin/ksh > ... > > I tried "passwd zlwang" from the client, I failed with the following > messages shown on the console of the FreeBSD nis server: > > Feb 1 10:47:38 coolbug rpc.yppasswdd[162]: /bin/ksh is not a valid shell Try adding /bin/ksh to /etc/shells on the NIS master. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message