Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 17:50:14 +1200 From: Tom Munro Glass <tom@tmgcon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients Message-ID: <200405301750.14665.tom@tmgcon.com> In-Reply-To: <20040529201221.GE28582@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> References: <200405301405.59995.tom@tmgcon.com> <20040529201221.GE28582@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com>
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> This should work; I've got a Linux machine at work succesfully > authenticating NIS accounts against a FreeBSD server. I believe > that the differences in passwd files are strictly in the master.passwd > (FreeBSD) and shadow (Linux) files; the files /etc/passwd have the > same format in both OS'. > > I'd suspect problems in the way the clients have been configured. > Check that the password and group files have been set up correctly > (I screw up the sequence of plus signs and colons regularly), and > that the NIS domain has been set. > So how does Linux authenticate the password? 'ypwhich -m' shows passwd.byname, passwd.byuid, master.passwd.byname, master.passwd.byuid but of course there is no shadow.byname or shadow.byuid. I believe that I have the passwd and group files set up correctly on the Linux machines, and I don't really know where to look next. Tom
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