Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 14:23:30 -0500 (EST) From: Toby Swanson <toby@milkyway.org> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS login problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971214140843.531A-100000@antares.milkyway.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971213195541.26297A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Tom wrote: > > You shouldn't run yppasswdd on clients. It should only run on the > master NIS server. > Killed it. > > Do you have "+:::::::::" in master.passwd on the client? > Well, uh, sort of. :^) What I had was from the O'Reilly NFS and NIS book. +:*:::::::: Their reason was to prevent the user "+" from logging in with no password if NIS is not running. It seems the use of a shadow password file takes care of this problem. When I changed it logins started working. Thanks for your help. Tobyhelp
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