Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:35:49 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Sean Shilton <sshilton@basset.eng.ascend.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS client Message-ID: <199712110135.TAA00717@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Sean Shilton <sshilton@basset.eng.ascend.com> of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:42:36 EST." <Pine.GSO.3.96.971210184022.4262A-100000@basset.eng.ascend.com>
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Sean Shilton writes:
>
> I am running a FreeBSD 2.2.5-current machine which i am trying to use as a
> NIS client. I have the domain set correctly and ypcat passwd yeilds all
> the users in the NIS map. What do i havce to add to the passwd file to
> for the machine to accept NIS logins.
"man 5 passwd" yeilds:
YP/NIS INTERACTION
Enabling access to NIS passwd data
The system administrator can configure FreeBSD to use NIS/YP for its
password information by adding special records to the /etc/master.passwd
file. These entries should be added with vipw(8) so that the changes can
be properly merged with the hashed password databases and the /etc/passwd
file ( /etc/passwd should never be edited manually). Alternatively, the
administrator can modify /etc/master.passwd in some other way and then
manually update the password databases with pwd_mkdb(8).
The simplest way to activate NIS is to add an empty record with only a
plus sign (`+') in the name field, such as this:
+:::::::::
The `+' will tell the getpwent(3) routines in FreeBSD's standard C li-
brary to begin using the NIS passwd maps for lookups.
You might want to do a similar thing for /etc/group.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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