From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 9 14:41: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3F814CB0 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 14:41:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA21925; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 14:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA08854; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 14:40:31 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA27000; Fri, 9 Jul 99 14:40:30 PDT Message-Id: <37866C4E.A4D873E0@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 15:40:30 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Nathaniel Schein Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: NIS, + in the passwd file References: <001301beca47$cf2304a0$898110ac@nschein.prisa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nathaniel Schein wrote: > > I am trying to set up NIS with FreeBSD. On bootup ypbind has no problem and > if I do a `ypwhich` it will show the NIS master. Moreover, when I do a > `ypcat passwd` the passwd list is displayed. When I try to use `vipw` to > place a '+' at the end of the passwd file, the consistancy checks do not > allow me. Must I edit the passwd file directly and use `pwd_mkdb` to resolve > this problem, or is there another solution? Edit the passwd database with vipw. Append the following line to the end: +::::::::: That's 9 colons there, anything else will not do. > Also, when I do a `ypwhich -x` not all the maps held by the NIS master are > shown. Does somebody know why? By the way the NIS master running FreeBSD > 2.11 and the client is running v.3.2. The master is correctly configured and > integrated with an IRIX network. FreeBSD 2.11? Never heard of such a beast. Do you mean 2.1.1? Ugh! -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message