From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 19:28: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080B137B503 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id e9A2S1n21672; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:28:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:28:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Matt Harrington Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't add +::::::::: to passwd file Message-ID: <20001009212800.A10532@dan.emsphone.com> References: <003f01c03241$a6860d40$6245da80@ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: <003f01c03241$a6860d40$6245da80@ucsf.edu>; from "Matt Harrington" on Mon Oct 9 15:38:31 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 09), Matt Harrington said: > I'm trying to set up FreeBSD 4.1 as a NIS client. "ypcat passwd" > works fine and I can "su" to users. I can't get the passwd file to > pull in NIS accounts though. > > I've read the manpage for passwd(5) and I read the handbook as well. > I added "+:::::::::" with vipw but /etc/passwd still has "+:*:::::" > in it. That is to say, the password field is locked and I can't log > in with NIS accounts. The password field isn't locked. /etc/passwd is actually not used by anything any more. It's just there to make people happy when they look for it, basically :) Your problem must be somewhere else. Make sure you have installed the DES libraries; otherwise your system won't be able to validate any of the passwords in NIS. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message