From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 26 14: 0:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tardis.mx.com.au (tardis.mx.com.au [203.34.34.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C603914E05 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 14:00:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from justin@tardis.mx.com.au) Received: from localhost (justin@localhost) by gw.tardis.mx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA01163 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 02:06:16 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from justin@tardis.mx.com.au) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 02:06:13 +1030 (CST) From: Justin Hawkins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Basic NIS help needed Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a small network which I am trying to get NIS going on. It's mostly setup OK. On the client I can use ypcat to see the passwd file for instance. I can even use yppasswd to change the password of a user on the server machine, from the client. What I can't do is authenticate local logins via NIS. I understand I need to add +:::::::: to /etc/passwd. But I have tried that - I seem to be doing something wrong. I'm a little confused - if I use 'vipw' to edit /etc/passwd (which I thought I was supposed to) it barfs when trying to exit - not liking the +:::::::: line. If I add it using just 'vi' it doesn't seem to work. Where does master.password come into this? Sorry - I'm a real NIS newbie - I couldn't find anything better than a Linux howto on the net :-( - Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message