From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 20:55:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D744416A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:55:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gamera.svk.isite.net (mail.isite.net [205.217.158.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3F6D43D2D for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:55:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrhett@isite.net) Received: from anubis.svk.isite.net (anubis.svk.isite.net [205.217.158.5]) by gamera.svk.isite.net (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i57KtKqa003899 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anubis.svk.isite.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i57KtKZ8026946; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jrhett@localhost)i57KtKLi026945; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:55:20 -0700 From: Joe Rhett To: Tom Munro Glass Message-ID: <20040607205520.GE22403@isite.net> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Munro Glass , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200405301405.59995.tom@tmgcon.com> <20040529201221.GE28582@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> <200405301750.14665.tom@tmgcon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405301750.14665.tom@tmgcon.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Organization: Isite Services, Inc. cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:55:21 -0000 Did you enable the insecure option from /var/yp/Makefile so that passwords appear in the passwd map? By default I believe it expects clients to read the master.passwd map, which naturally Linux does not. On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:50:14PM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > > This should work; I've got a Linux machine at work succesfully > > authenticating NIS accounts against a FreeBSD server. I believe > > that the differences in passwd files are strictly in the master.passwd > > (FreeBSD) and shadow (Linux) files; the files /etc/passwd have the > > same format in both OS'. > > > > I'd suspect problems in the way the clients have been configured. > > Check that the password and group files have been set up correctly > > (I screw up the sequence of plus signs and colons regularly), and > > that the NIS domain has been set. > > > > So how does Linux authenticate the password? 'ypwhich -m' shows passwd.byname, > passwd.byuid, master.passwd.byname, master.passwd.byuid but of course there > is no shadow.byname or shadow.byuid. > > I believe that I have the passwd and group files set up correctly on the Linux > machines, and I don't really know where to look next. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek JRhett@Isite.Net Isite Services, Inc.