From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 7 16:13: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.acns.ab.ca (h24-64-56-135.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.56.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1AE37B405 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:12:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from colnta.acns.ab.ca (colnta.acns.ab.ca [192.168.1.2]) by mail.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g080CxI50221; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:12:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc@colnta.acns.ab.ca) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by colnta.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g080Csk24177; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:12:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:12:54 -0700 From: Chad David To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solaris NIS client Message-ID: <20020107171254.B23670@colnta.acns.ab.ca> References: <20020107153821.A23607@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <20020107224823.GM65733@dan.emsphone.com> <20020107160034.A23670@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <20020107230821.GN65733@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020107230821.GN65733@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:08:21PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message