Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 22:31:46 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS Setup Question Message-ID: <199608032031.WAA00812@grumble.grondar.za>
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"Marc G. Fournier" wrote:
> > RTFM - the right one!
> >
> > rpc.yppasswdd -t /etc/master.passwd -s -f
> > ^
>
> First, thanks for pointing this out...
Pleasure :-)
> Second, which is the right one? I just installed 2.2-SNAP
> from scratch, and the only 'man' that comes up is for yppasswdd *shrug*
Er, the man page for rpc.yppasswdd?
^^^^
> And finally...with -t, that is working now, which I thought
> would fix the problem I was having in the first place...I can't
> login to the NIS client machine (2.1-STABLE)
I can't duplicate this - I only have current.
> Pointer to "the right RTFM" would be helpful, since it would
> probably answer more then just th eimmediate question, but...
When you do upgrades, it helps to go throug your system every now
and then and delete cruft. That way, man -k <keyword> cannot lie to
you :-)
In this case, the man pages for yppasswdd are no longer required,
as is yppasswdd. Commit mail told us this...
> I can successfully change a users password from the client
> machine, but login fails. Both machines are using DES encryption
> vs MD5, which is the first thing I checked...does that even affect
> things if you use NIS? Since password changing does work, I would
> have thought that the rest would by default, but it seems I'm
> wrong on this?
??Dunno?
> Oh, 'ls ~<userid>' resolves correctly also, only login
> doesn't seem to be working...
What does your "+" entry in your passwd file look like?
> So, either a pointer to the manual to read for this, or
> a pointer to what I should be looking at would be great...
<smile> man -k yp </smile>
Ignore the old stuff...
M
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