From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jun 6 19:28: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.erols.com (smtp1.erols.com [207.172.3.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CDE14F26 for ; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:27:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (207-172-143-225.s34.as3.hgt.md.dialup.rcn.com [207.172.143.225]) by smtp1.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA16969; Sun, 6 Jun 1999 22:27:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199906070227.WAA16969@smtp1.erols.com> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 22:27:52 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: NIS strangeness Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters , Mike Nowlin Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06-Jun-99 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Mike Nowlin writes: >> > Did you add the +::::::: entry to the passwd file? >> > Be sure to do group as well, if that's the problem. ;^) >> Used "vipw" to add it into /etc/master.passwd, and /etc/passwd now hsa >> +:*::::: in it..... Seems OK there..... :) > > Remove the star - that's what's preventing kathleen from logging in. If it was in /etc/master.passwd, yes. In /etc/passwd, no. At least, I run a lab of 80+ machines running NIS over FreeBSD and Digital Unix and all the FreeBSD clients have +:::::::: in /etc/master.passwd and +:*::::::: in /etc/passwd. > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message