Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:25:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "T. Simpson" <t.simpson@swansea.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nis support Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603001846.22038s-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3573F3F3.41C6@swan.ac.uk>
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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
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