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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2002 05:39:29 -0800
From:      Blake Swensen <blake@pyramus.com>
To:        Martin Chandler <chand@tvt.ne.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Login?
Message-ID:  <3CA46E91.3020406@pyramus.com>
References:  <3CA35E48.C384EDD8@pyramus.com> <3CA37150.47EA32E9@Thehousleys.net> <3CA3833F.C369821B@pyramus.com> <002101c1d69c$8c9805e0$0c0aa8c0@caz> <5.0.2.6.2.20020329160136.01e9aaa0@mail.tvt.ne.jp>

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We have a winner!  Although the +:*:.. works on lower version of FreeBSD 
it is different on 4.5.

Thanks to all for your kind support!

Peace,
Blake

Martin Chandler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At 14:00 02/03/28 -0800, you wrote:
>
>> I am wondering if NIS could be the culprit.  I have the +:*:... in the
>> group and passwd file. I can ypbind to my server and can ypcat all the
>> maps.
>
>
> When I did a NIS set up a while ago with a recent build of 4.5-STABLE, 
> I noticed that if the NIS entry in the client password file looked 
> like +:*:::::, it disabled all the NIS accounts like a local entry 
> with an asterisk in the password field does.  When I changed the entry 
> to +::::::, everything started working.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Martin
>



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