From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 00:25:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA14794 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:25:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14786 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:25:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA22791; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:25:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "T. Simpson" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nis support In-Reply-To: <3573F3F3.41C6@swan.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, T. Simpson wrote: > Hi, > > How do I get freebsd to verify passwords via a yp server. > I have managed to configure my machine as a yp client, and > modified the /etc/host.conf file, but it still won't use > nis for the passwords. The man page says to add a "+" to > the relavent file - what is the relavent file and how do > I do it? You need to add the + magic token to the file(s) you want to have mapped to NIS. For the password file, run vipw and add +::::::::: (plus and nine colons), one for each field in the file. You can do the same thing to /etc/group, but use three colons instead of nine. See http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message