From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 11:34:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wormhole.bluestar.net (wormhole.bluestar.net [208.53.1.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E33BF37B424 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from planetwe.com (admin.planetwe.com [64.182.69.146]) by wormhole.bluestar.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8CIY2N03471 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:34:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <39BE7717.6CCC206C@planetwe.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:33:59 -0500 From: Drew Sanford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS - adding users Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've set NIS up on two systems for some testing - I have one server, and one client, both running 4.0, both with the same domainname. The client server has an entry in /var/yp/securenets: 10.0.0.5 255.255.255.255 after initializing the NIS database, I could ypcat passwd from the client system and it would list the information that should be there. I figured that I should then test the setup by adding a user. So I adduser and created a user, and then cd'd to /var/yp and ran make , it spewed forth some information at me, and then I tried to log into the client machine using the new user. No dice. Running ypcat passwd shows the old information, which is correct, just sans the new user. I know this is a bit vauge, but I did add +::::::: to the /etc/master.passwd to the client, and I added the proper line to the /etc/groups file as well. Does anyone have any ideas why the client isn't updating? I've looked at the handbook, and noticed that it says you can use adduser and it stresses to make sure you update the domain database afterwards, and I followed the steps in the handbook for setting things up. Can someone suggest a good place for me to start troubleshooting this? Thanks. -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message