Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 08:40:42 -0700 From: "Brian D. McGrew" <brian@visionpro.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: YP Passwords Message-ID: <375A967A.D7F1BFDC@visionpro.com>
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Greets,
I'm using FreeBSD-3.1 RELEASE. I setup my server as a
ypserver. Everything seemed to go smoothly. From the server 'bigguy',
I can ypcat all the map files, and ypwhich says it's bound to it's self
'bigguy'. After the setup, all my local user logins had been
COPIED from /etc/passwd to /var/yp/passwd. This was a good thing.. So,
I removed all the local stuff from /etc/passwd.
After that, I tried to login to the server as a local user
'brian', and got 'invalid login'. I could still login as root, but none
of my local users could login. I made sure that ypserv, ypbind and
rpc.yppasswdd were all running, but it did no good. So, to get my local
users back, I had to put them back into /etc/passwd.
I have two other workstations on my network. One being a
FreeBSD-3.1 RELEASE box, and the other being a RedHat Linux-6.0 box.
Both of these are also setup for a nis client. Both ypbind and
rpc.yppasswdd are running. Again, I can ypcat all the map files and
they both say that they're bound to the server 'bigguy'. But, I still
can not login as any of the users that are in /var/yp/passwd.
I am certanly not the worlds expert on yp, but it seems like
either the server is not authenticating the password, or the user is not
being properly mapped. Like I siad, I had to put all my local users
back into /etc/passwd on the server so we could login and email would
work.
I run a ypserver at work on Solaris 7, and none of the user
logins are in /etc/passwd on the server. Everything is in the
/var/yp/passwd; so I assumed that FreeBSD would be the same. Am I
missing something? What do I have to do to get YP to authenticate my
users; on the server as well as the workstations?
TIA,
--
brian
brian@visionpro.com brian@kaffe-soft.com pacemakertaker@yahoo.com
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