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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:12:54 -0700
From:      Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Solaris NIS client
Message-ID:  <20020107171254.B23670@colnta.acns.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20020107230821.GN65733@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:08:21PM -0600
References:  <20020107153821.A23607@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <20020107224823.GM65733@dan.emsphone.com> <20020107160034.A23670@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <20020107230821.GN65733@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:08:21PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 07), Chad David said:
> > I've got nis working enough to read the passwd and group maps, it is
> > the authentication problem that I'm fighting with (I can su from
> > root, but not login).
> > 
> > The problem is that Solaris doesn't seem to know how to read the
> > password maps from the FreeBSD server (I think?), and I'm guessing
> > that I need to create a new map (shadow?) on the server, and I was
> > hoping that somebody already went through the effort to make this
> > work (so I wouldn't have to).
> 
> Try uncommenting
> 
> UNSECURE = "True"

This worked... I do not know what I didn't see that since I was hacking
on the Makefile? :(

I should add that to the nis(4) man page, since the Makefile is probably
not the first play people look for docs :).

Thanks for the tip.

-- 
Chad David        davidc@acns.ab.ca
ACNS Inc.         Calgary, Alberta Canada

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