From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 04:52:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E710616A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:52:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from goblin.sonhosting.net (MKXLIV.dsl.saunalahti.fi [62.142.33.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20EB243D49 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sonhosting.net) Received: from www.sonhosting.net (localhost.sonhosting.net [127.0.0.1]) i2CCq7QE000457 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:52:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from mike@sonhosting.net) Received: from 137.163.145.226 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mike) by www.sonhosting.net with HTTP; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:52:08 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <27626.137.163.145.226.1079095928.squirrel@www.sonhosting.net> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:52:08 +0200 (EET) From: "Ben 'Bend Over' Dover" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: NIS problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:52:10 -0000 The last couple of days I've bin trying to setup a box to authenticate users from a NIS server. With the help of the Handbook pages I've done that and it works. But I can't seem to get the client to only accept users from a specific normal group. Out take from the 4.9Rel passwd man pages: --- Using groups instead of netgroups for NIS overrides FreeBSD offers the capability to do override matching based on user groups rather than netgroups. If, for example, an NIS entry is specified as: +@operator::::::::: the system will first try to match users against a netgroup called `operator'. If an `operator' netgroup doesn't exist, the system will try to match users against the normal `operator' group instead. --- I understod this so that if operator isn't a netgroup but normal group the client will only add users from the NIS-server that belong to that group. But I can't seem to get it to work! Did I understand the text wrong or have someone else experienced this problem? I'd just like to know if this is possible to do or not!