From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 20 18: 5:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rigel.milkyway.org (unknown [205.241.194.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0620215124 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toby@rigel.milkyway.org) Received: from localhost (toby@localhost) by rigel.milkyway.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00301; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:06:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from toby@rigel.milkyway.org) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:06:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Toby Swanson To: Doug White Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS not working quite right In-Reply-To: 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 What I goofed was the NIS record in /etc/passwd. For future reference users should check the passwd entry in section 5 of the man pages to solve this particular problem. Thanks, Toby On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Toby Swanson wrote: > > > I am running 2.2.8 on both client and server. ypwhich shows client is > > bound to server. ypcat passwd shows client has server passwd table. When > > I log in on the client as toby using my password (different from root's > > password) I get logged in as root. I have a print server that is running > > 2.1.7 and NIS works fine on it. I've looked through the handbook, FAQ, > > and mailing list archives; no joy. Any thoughts anyone? > > Do > > id toby > > and > > id > > once logged in and send the output. > > You probably goofed the magic cookie. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message