Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:46:24 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: "Swanson, Toby J." <tjswanson@tva.gov> Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "'toby@milkyway.org'" <toby@milkyway.org> Subject: Re: NIS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971031194252.11298D-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=attmail%p=tva%l=KNXNOROIS1B-971031205325Z-11152@chachaois2b.cha.tva.gov>
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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Swanson, Toby J. wrote: > I am running 2.1.7 on a 486-33MHz host named scar. I am attempting > to use NIS to authenticate logins on this machine. Everything starts > up without any error messages, but only local login ids and passwords > are accepted at a login prompt. I have added the '+' entries to > /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/aliases and have uncommented the NIS You mean /etc/master.passwd right? /etc/passwd is only decorative on FreeBSD systems (and all BSD 4.4 systems). > entry in /etc/host.conf. I start ypbind successfully, then ypwhich > shows I am bound to the master server in my domain named gie (a Sun > Ultra Enterprise 4000 running Solaris 2.5.1). When I run 'ypwhich > scar' on the server I get an error message of "ypwhich: can't call > ypbind on scar: RPC: program/version mismatch; low version = 2, high > version = 2". Running 'ypwhich -V2 scar' returns gie. Are you running NIS+ or NIS on the NIS master? FreeBSD does not support NIS+. Tom
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