From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 21 11:23:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08091 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:23:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08085 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:22:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA14271; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:21:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:21:17 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199812211921.LAA14271@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ritwik@dbrci.blr.daimlerbenz.com Subject: Re: NIS client enabling In-Reply-To: <367CF5CF.4AA375B1@dbrci.blr.daimlerbenz.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 13:04:15 +0000 >From: Ritwik Bhattacharya >Hi! I want to enable NIS on my bsd box. The NIS server is another bsd >box. I have run ypserv on the server, and ypbind on my box. Things seem >ok, because ypcat, ypmatch etc work. But I am unable to log in on my >machine with any user id on the server. Could it be something to do with >bsd's policy of not servicing requests on non-priviledged ports ? Can >someone help ? * Ensure that the server & clients all use DES for password encryption. * Ensure that the NIS/yp "magic cookies" are inserted into the password & group (database and) files. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message