From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 3 13:32:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10716 for current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 13:32:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10620 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 13:32:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (mark@localhost.grondar.za [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA00812; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 22:31:47 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199608032031.WAA00812@grumble.grondar.za> To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS Setup Question Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 22:31:46 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "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 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 ~' 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... man -k yp Ignore the old stuff... M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key