From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 31 19:48:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26618 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:48:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA26605 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:48:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xRUW7-0002xz-00; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:46:31 -0800 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 19:46:24 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: "Swanson, Toby J." cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'toby@milkyway.org'" Subject: Re: NIS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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