On 8/8/05, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the last episode (Aug 08), Jeremy Utley said:
I'm trying to use FreeBSD 5.4 as an NIS client, and am encountering
problems. I've followed the instructions given in the FreeBSD docs
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html)
successfully, but the system does not recognize my NIS users.
Running ypcat passwd shows expected output:
freebsd5# ypcat passwd
Administrator:omitted:0:0::/root:/bin/bash
jeremy:omitted:500:100::/home/jeremy:/bin/bash
test:omitted:501:100::/home/test:/bin/bash
You might want to change these passwords now that everyone knows the
hash :)
No worries - this is a reserved network with no direct connectivity to
the net at large, otherwise I would have done so. I suppose I should
also mention that the NIS master server is a W2K3 AD controller with
Services for Unix, but that doesn't seem to be involved, since a linux
system on the same NIS domain appears to work properly.
However, when I try to login as any of these 3 users, it rejects the
login - even using the id command fails:
freebsd5# id jeremy
id: jeremy: no such user
You need either a plus line in your master.passwd file (best way to add
it is to use the vipw command):
+:
This part has already been done - it was part of the docs I followed
from the FreeBSD site.
Or you need this in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
passwd: files nis
Haven't done this...the passwd section of my current nsswitch.conf is:
passwd: compat
passwd_compat: nis
Adding this to nsswitch.conf seems to have resolved the problem -
perhaps doing so should be added to the docs.
Jeremy
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