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Date:      Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:36:06 -0600
From:      Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS authontication problem.
Message-ID:  <20031214163606.GQ64340@seekingfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312141807010.8818-100000@ce.sharif.ac.ir>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312141807010.8818-100000@ce.sharif.ac.ir>

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On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:13:39PM -0500, Hossein wrote:
> Hello every body;
> 	In our department we are going to use a 5.1 Stable FreeBSD, and it 
> must run NIS client to authonticate the users through a Linux NIS server.
> 	The ypbind works well and when I do "ypcat passwd" I get the 
> enteries in the passwd of the NIS server. I added the correct lines to 
> passwd.master and group according to the handbook. But no user can log in 
> and in the /var/log/auth.log it apears that the password is not corect. 

I haven't tried integrating non-BSD'ish machines into one of my NIS
domains, but it occurs to me that the /etc/shadow vs /etc/master.passwd
difference could cause /etc/passwd to propogate without actually
distributing the passwords. You might want to investigate
"compatibility" modes and so forth.

-T


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