From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 18 22:11:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD0B16A418 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:11:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roy2098@yahoo.com) Received: from web54201.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web54201.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.39.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC64F13C45D for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:11:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roy2098@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 69244 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Dec 2007 22:11:15 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=pl3S47D2CJ+xy7hpz9SEvSvwZbA+BlydXu3JHJ0Wm6F8WfHsYUZd1WEiefz8AWQkpwHhnzGrHvG9GoDw/7SgDJb4xeJz+Rsd/B2kH6vziAMNk/KIAx8cGWfctVDR7J9G78GWQjSOmhDTgH52YYbY2UGm1yK4k41YKWpYPWcbrLg=; X-YMail-OSG: 9vppN3UVM1nLS_mgVExuwdk284bvtkDMFdVpNH.XB7DaCjeyt1xuUACtpt6wQ.MZ6KskSnPL8gYPMhnTKJy6r6DoYaNPZlf_SGwnfeyzpqd4YUP936opBzE4lvXYzw-- Received: from [69.19.14.28] by web54201.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:11:14 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/818.31 YahooMailWebService/0.7.158.1 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:11:14 -0800 (PST) From: RA Cohen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <54129.66383.qm@web54201.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Subject: NIS Linux - Ubuntu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: RA Cohen List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:11:16 -0000 I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: >>Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions<< Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu was only given permissions of the user doing the login - not root - but we could login with any valid user apparently FreeBSD thought it was presented with a wildcard password. And I can also verify that FreeBSD clients are able to use the password map when x is used instead of * in the map to represent the password. So I can secure the system using the x but still cannot get Ubuntu clients to authenticate. Roy ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping