Re: NIS oops

2010-01-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
and thats the one error I made in setting it up likely... (I saw that note after rebooting in the handbook) I have been there, I have done that. Luckily my server is next door :) Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: NIS oops

2010-01-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
is there any way to use an other machine on the net to kick start it Unless you have an account on that master server that is not depending on NIS, I see no way. Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: NIS oops

2010-01-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Olivier Nicole wrote: is there any way to use an other machine on the net to kick start it Unless you have an account on that master server that is not depending on NIS, I see no way. Bests, Olivier and thats the one error I made in setting it up likely... (I saw that note after

Re: NIS users can't login with FTPD

2009-10-30 Thread Markiyan Kushnir
what's in /etc/nsswitch.conf ? Markiyan. Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I've installed a nes machine ( 7.2 / 64 bits ) which runs like a charm EXCEPT for the FTP service for NIS users ... Local users ( which are present in /etc/passwd file ) have no problem BUT NIS users cannot log in when using

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:10:00PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The behavior with an asterisk instead of an X is pretty worrisome, however, and is not strictly Ubuntu's fault. Security of a server should not rely on the good will and competence of

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:32:50AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: RA Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RA Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu was only given permissions of the user doing the login - not root - but we could login with any valid user

Re: NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:32:50AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: RA Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry, here is an addendum to my previous post: Somehow Ubuntu was given root user permissions Actually, upon rereading my notes, Ubuntu was only given permissions of the user

Re: NIS group mQuestion

2007-10-18 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
Hello, I'm trying to setup a NIS Server under FreeBSD 6.2 to serve Linux Clients (CentOS4). The main problem i have is with the group map. When FreeBSD generates the maps it gets the info for this from /etc/group, which gets imported from the Linux clients. My question is: Is there anyway

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. The manual says: If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD clients that have no support for

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have experimented a bit further with my debian NIS server, and this is what I found: From a NIS client, I can do with my standard user account: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ypcat passwd.byname user1:x:1010:1010:Joe

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. The manual says: If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD clients that have no support for password shadowing (which is most of them), you will have to disable the

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. The manual says: If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD clients that have no support for password shadowing (which is most of them), you

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olivier Nicole wrote: Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't remember

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olivier Nicole wrote: Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't remember details). If I am not wrong, NIS does not know anything about

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Olivier Nicole wrote: Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't remember details). If I am not wrong, NIS does

Re: NIS server over IPv6

2007-08-31 Thread Mel
On Friday 31 August 2007 11:15:51 Prabhu Harihar wrote: I wish to know whether FreeBSD supports NIS server running over IPv6 protocol? I'm clueless in getting information about NIS server over IPv6 configuration and availability in any Unix flavors including *BSDs, Solaris or Linux distros.

Re: NIS server over IPv6

2007-08-31 Thread Prabhu Harihar
I think, the underlying RPC portmapper needs to be ipv6-aware. Whether this is supported in FreeBSD? Do you think no other configuration changes needed for NIS server / client running natively over IPv6 network? Thanks! On 8/31/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 August 2007

Re: NIS server over IPv6

2007-08-31 Thread Mel
On Friday 31 August 2007 15:23:23 Prabhu Harihar wrote: reformatted for clarity(tm) On 8/31/07, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 31 August 2007 11:15:51 Prabhu Harihar wrote: I wish to know whether FreeBSD supports NIS server running over IPv6 protocol? I'm clueless in

Re: NIS and Kerberos 5 : is it possible / smart?

2006-08-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Peshak wrote: On 8/4/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just wondering if it's possible for NIS and Kerberos 5 to work in tandem with one another, such that NIS would handle groups and configuration file management and

Re: NIS and Kerberos 5 : is it possible / smart?

2006-08-10 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On 8/4/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just wondering if it's possible for NIS and Kerberos 5 to work in tandem with one another, such that NIS would handle groups and configuration file management and Kerberos would handle authentication only. Also, is this

Re: NIS

2006-04-08 Thread Derek Ragona
Normally you add the account to the master then do a yppush to push the new maps out right away. -Derek At 09:15 PM 4/7/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have nis setup and working great. I made a copy of master.passwd in /var/yp and removed the system accounts. The manual says that

Re: NIS

2006-04-07 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:15:15 -0600 (MDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have nis setup and working great. I made a copy of master.passwd in /var/yp and removed the system accounts. The manual says that when I add a user to the primary server and issue make nisdomainname(in /var/yp) the new user

Re: NIS versus LDAP authentication

2005-12-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Brent wrote: We are getting ready to migrate from a single super server solution to a group of Freebsd servers doing seperate tasks...I was wondering whats everyones opinions on NIS versus LDAP for authentication ...and if anyone can point me at any good howto's for both NIS or LDAP in a multi

Re: NIS on FreeBSD 5.4/4.11

2005-10-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Jeung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good evening all, I am desperately trying to get NIS working in my FreeBSD 5.4 and 4.11 environment - specifically, I'm trying to get NIS set up such that a NIS client is able to change the password for an account. Like a good little rabbit, I have

Re: NIS problems on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-09 Thread Jeremy Utley
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

Re: NIS problems on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 09), Jeremy Utley said: 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 (

Re: NIS problems on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-08 Thread Dan Nelson
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

Re: NIS login - argh!

2005-02-27 Thread Tom Huppi
Follow-up Follow-up (for google'rs): On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Tom Huppi wrote: *NOTE* to those fighting these issues (and seeing this via google or some such...): There seems to be some sort of a bug which is tickled by this kind of fooling around. It manifests itself by setting the user's

Re: NIS login - argh!

2005-02-17 Thread Tom Huppi
Follow-up: No clear resolution. I believe that _perhaps_ the problem is, in part, that the NIS server is not serving master.passwd even though it claims to be (i.e., 'ypwhich -x' shows it.) Anyone know if that map needs to be distributed in order for 5.3-ish NIS clients to work? *NOTE* to

Re: NIS

2005-01-05 Thread Brian McCann
Nope...just tried that with no luck. Thanks though. Any other ideas anyone? --Brian On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:43:40 -0800, Bob Van Zant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are your dates screwed up? By that I mean is master.passwd newer than your NIS file? Try touch(1)ing your NIS file and then running

Re: NIS

2005-01-05 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD mailinglist freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Bob Van Zant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:36 AM Subject: Re: NIS Nope...just tried that with no luck. Thanks though. Any other ideas anyone

Re: NIS

2005-01-04 Thread Bob Van Zant
Are your dates screwed up? By that I mean is master.passwd newer than your NIS file? Try touch(1)ing your NIS file and then running make. I've never actually setup NIS before. My comment is just based on my experiences with make. -Bob On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:29 -0500, Brian McCann wrote: HI

Re: NIS and non-NIS question

2004-12-11 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:33:43 -0500 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox wrote: I have a box I want to rework to allow it to operate outside a NIS enviroment when outside my LAN and use NIS and NFS when it is not. Any suggestions on how to go about this? Set up a cron job

Re: NIS and non-NIS question

2004-12-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vulpes Velox wrote: I have a box I want to rework to allow it to operate outside a NIS enviroment when outside my LAN and use NIS and NFS when it is not. Any suggestions on how to go about this? Set up a cron job to invoke a shell script which rsync's your YP master's password file (and

Re: NIS issue

2004-10-11 Thread William Bierman
I may be misunderstanding what you are saying here, but master.passwd on the slave servers should never get updated with NIS information. That line that goes at the end tells the authentication process to look to NIS for further information...same goes with the line that goes in the group

Re: NIS issue

2004-10-11 Thread William Bierman
Be hot on typo. My case : % sudo tail -1 /etc/ma*d +: % sudo tail -1 /etc/ma*d|wc -c 11 % Sorry, this was a typo in my email, not the master.passwd. There are 9 colons in the actual file. (Again apologies if you get this multiple times .. it's late and I did not notice

Re: NIS issue

2004-10-11 Thread Brian McCann
Interesting...something that pops into my mind is something obvious since it was stated in the handbook, but needs to be said anyway...when you add stuff to the master.passwd file, do you re-make the database? Also, if you follow the directions in the handbook, they suggest you make a different

Re: NIS issue

2004-10-11 Thread William Bierman
Interesting...something that pops into my mind is something obvious since it was stated in the handbook, but needs to be said anyway...when you add stuff to the master.passwd file, do you re-make the database? Also, if you follow the directions in the handbook, they suggest you make a

Re: NIS issue (now resolved!)

2004-10-11 Thread William Bierman
Interesting...something that pops into my mind is something obvious since it was stated in the handbook, but needs to be said anyway...when you add stuff to the master.passwd file, do you re-make the database? Also, if you follow the directions in the handbook, they suggest you make a

Re: NIS issue

2004-10-10 Thread horio shoichi
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:55:06 -1000 William Bierman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have searched the archives for this, to no avail. I am attempting to setup an NIS domain. I have followed the steps in the handbook, and have succesfully setup my master and clients (I have no slave

Re: NIS issue

2004-10-10 Thread Brian McCann
I may be misunderstanding what you are saying here, but master.passwd on the slave servers should never get updated with NIS information. That line that goes at the end tells the authentication process to look to NIS for further information...same goes with the line that goes in the group file.

Re: nis/yp question about password file

2004-09-21 Thread Evren Yurtesen
David Wolfskill wrote: can anybody tell what changed in nis/yp that it doesnt work as before anymore? PAM, perhaps? Ah well, I figured the problem out actually... I was too impatient when I sent the email... I just upgraded my master nis server to a completely new machine and the old one was

RE: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

2004-08-25 Thread LiQuiD
Hi Hugo, Look to NFS to do that for you. Here's a link to a page in the online handbook. NFS can do exactly what you want http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nfs.ht ml -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

2004-08-25 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:36:03 - (GMT) Hugo Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today,

Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

2004-08-25 Thread Hugo Silva
NIS exports info from a passwd file. So this will include user information and ect... groups can also be exported to... the means using NFS you can export a file system or place on a fs. Allowing you to export /usr/home or the like Point well taken, I didn't think on this. Should do the

Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

2004-08-25 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 09:36 am, Hugo Silva wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). snip Since I plan to switch the whole network from windows to FreeBSD / Linux (only adding linux because

Re: NIS on a school network - need some clarifications

2004-08-25 Thread Lee Harr
I'm working on a project to change the network on my school to open source software only (FreeBSD/Linux workstations only). Excellent. Some lucky students there! I knew about NIS from readings of the handbook years ago, so I revisited it today, but there' is something that's missing. I understand

Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: I have NIS running on a few servers. I have had them configured with the -S option with only their host name so they would use the local resolver. However, after a few problems with ypserv dying I tried adding additional servers to the -S list.

Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: I have NIS running on a few servers. I have had them configured with the -S option with only their host name so they would use the local resolver. However, after a few problems with ypserv dying I tried

Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote: The best you can do is make sure ypwhich points to the local machine so that subsequent processes will use it. You can't force existing processes to switch. Thanks. I have now set 3 servers in

Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 8, 2004, at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote: The best you can do is make sure ypwhich points to the local machine so that subsequent processes will use it. You can't force existing processes to switch.

Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients

2004-06-07 Thread Joe Rhett
Did you enable the insecure option from /var/yp/Makefile so that passwords appear in the passwd map? By default I believe it expects clients to read the master.passwd map, which naturally Linux does not. On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:50:14PM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: This should work; I've

Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients

2004-05-29 Thread Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
Tom Munro Glass disturbed my sleep to write: I've set up NIS server as described in the handbook, and if I run ypcat on the Linux client, it is obtaining information from the server. However, it is faiing to authenticate users defined on the FreeBSD machine. Should this work, or is there a

Re: NIS - FreeBSD server and Linux clients

2004-05-29 Thread Tom Munro Glass
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'.

Re: NIS problems solved

2004-01-24 Thread kitsune
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 12:47:32 -0600 Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently set up a NIS server on my lan. All machines are running freebsd 4stable. I have added the nisdomainname and nis_client_enable lines to the client machines along with the correct lines on the server in

Re: NIS problems solved

2004-01-24 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:07:51PM -0600, kitsune wrote: Found my problem... a pwd_mkdb is required... but not mentioned in the hand book... The handbook section dealing with setting up NIS clients tells you to use 'vipw' to edit master.passwd, which will make sure that a pwd_mkdb is done.

RE: Nis

2004-01-23 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running NIS with freebsd as the server and using redhat clients. I have authentication working fine but I cant seem to get changing the passwords to work. If you change the password from a redhat box it just changes the NIS password not the system password

Re: NIS authontication problem.

2003-12-14 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:13:39PM -0500, Hossein wrote: Hello every body; In our department we are going to use a 5.1 Stable FreeBSD, and it must run NIS client to authonticate the users through a Linux NIS server. The ypbind works well and when I do ypcat passwd I get the

Re: NIS authontication problem.

2003-12-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 14), Hossein said: In our department we are going to use a 5.1 Stable FreeBSD, and it must run NIS client to authonticate the users through a Linux NIS server. The ypbind works well and when I do ypcat passwd I get the enteries in the passwd of the NIS

Re: NIS problem

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 16), Adam Maloney said: In the last couple of days we have seen a lot of messages like the one below appearing in /var/log/messages: Oct 13 06:14:58 x ypserv[45883]: access to master.passwd.byname denied -- client 1.2.3.4:3458 not privileged This goes on for

SOLVED Re: NIS authentication problems

2003-10-12 Thread Joan Picanyol
* Joan Picanyol [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20031013 03:37]: What am I doing wrong or what could I be missing? I forgot to rebuild the passwd database after adding the +:: line sorry -- pica ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: NIS authentication problems

2003-10-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 13), Joan Picanyol said: I'm trying to set up NIS with the simplest setup: one server and one client. I've followed the procedure in the handbook, altering {login,auth}.conf as suggested (BTW: how do I know what format are my passwords stored in?). ypcat passwd shows

Re: NIS create homedir

2003-10-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if it was possible to automaticaly create users home directories when creating NIS users ? Indeed, the -m switch for the command pw does not create them. Is it normal behaviour, or is it a bug ? I took a quick look, and it *looks*

Re: nis security (DES passwords)

2003-09-13 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I was looking arround for this, and I found that Kerberos uses DES encryption, John (on my sytem) reports it rather weak: Benchmarking: Standard DES [24/32 4K]... DONE Many salts: 151603 c/s real, 169200 c/s virtual Only one salt: 152806 c/s real, 155607 c/s virtual Benchmarking: BSDI DES

Re: nis security (DES passwords)

2003-09-13 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: I was looking arround for this, and I found that Kerberos uses DES encryption, John (on my sytem) reports it rather weak: snip I'm now using MD5 passwords in NIS. Yet it seems the consensus that Kerberos is secure, am I missing

Re: nis security (DES passwords)

2003-09-13 Thread horio shoichi
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:01:31 +0200 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking arround for this, and I found that Kerberos uses DES encryption, John (on my sytem) reports it rather weak: clip Yet it seems the consensus that Kerberos is secure, am I missing something? 1. Krb5

Re: nis security

2003-09-12 Thread Guy Van Sanden
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 02:15, Tillman Hodgson wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:02:06PM -0500, Bruce Pea wrote: xnip I'm a bit biased, however: I use NIS with Kerberos and think it's the cats pajamas :-) Hey Tilman, s/l/ll/ :-) This sounds exactly like what we are looking

Re: nis security

2003-09-12 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:35:16AM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 02:15, Tillman Hodgson wrote: The rough instructions are fairly simple: * Set up Kerberos and ensure you have a working realm * Set up NIS, but set all the passwd fields to something that doesn't

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:59:04PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I'm building a new network for my company. Right on! I need centralized authentication and looked after LDAP to achieve this. It's a good thing you're designing this /now/ rather than trying to graft it on later. It's not as

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Bruce Pea
--On Monday, September 08, 2003 4:10 PM -0600 Tillman Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:59:04PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I'm building a new network for my company. Right on! I need centralized authentication and looked after LDAP to achieve this. It's a good

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:02:06PM -0500, Bruce Pea wrote: Does anyone know a solution for securing NIS, using ssh or encrypted tunnels or anything... I am open to any new idea :) IPsec can fix the network sniffing problem, though Kerberos can do that as well and comes with many other

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 08), Tillman Hodgson said: I'm a bit biased, however: I use NIS with Kerberos and think it's the cats pajamas :-) This sounds exactly like what we are looking for. Can you point us to any docs explaining how you do this?? The rough instructions are fairly

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:28:17PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 08), Tillman Hodgson said: I'm a bit biased, however: I use NIS with Kerberos and think it's the cats pajamas :-) This sounds exactly like what we are looking for. Can you point us to any docs

Re: NIS stealing low-numbered ports?

2003-08-20 Thread Eric van Gyzen
Aaron, I am having similar trouble with 5.1. For me, rpc.lockd is eating up all my low (privileged) udp ports. You can tell the system to use a different range for low ports. Use the sysctl command and tweak the net.inet.ip.portrange.lowlast variable. By default, it sets the lower bound

Re: NIS groups -yp_mkdb: error data too long

2003-08-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 31), Alvaro Rosales R. said: Hi guys I got this error when I make my NIS maps , I have a group in my group file that has 50 users and yp_mkdb complains about it with this error .yp_mkdb: data too long Any ideas? A line in your group file is over 1024 bytes. That

Re: NIS not working

2003-03-12 Thread W. J. Williams
see bottom.. --- Mike Galvez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:42:53AM -0800, W. J. Williams wrote: hi hope someone knows the answer to this riddle...I am trying to get NIS up and running. 1. one master, no slave...domain name is lab-nis-domain 2. Master rc.conf

Re: NIS not working (now it is :-)

2003-03-12 Thread W. J. Williams
--- Mike Galvez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:19:01PM -0800, W. J. Williams wrote: see bottom.. Try adding a test user with: pw useradd -Y -y /var/yp/master.passwd testuser Try logging into the master with the new user. Success? Try the client. HTH

Re: NIS not working (now it is :-)

2003-03-12 Thread Mike Galvez
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:46:43PM -0800, W. J. Williams wrote: --- Mike Galvez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:19:01PM -0800, W. J. Williams wrote: see bottom.. Try adding a test user with: pw useradd -Y -y /var/yp/master.passwd testuser Try logging

Re: NIS not working

2003-03-12 Thread Neeraj Arora
I setup nis recently, and I find no mistake in your procedure. But still, I list all my steps so that you may find some difference if there is any. As superuser: 1. Setup the server by enabling entries in rc.conf, set the domain to nis-domain. 2. Copied master.passwd from /etc to /var/yp and

Re: NIS Server with amd.home

2003-01-08 Thread Mike Hogsett
Hey, Hi. I'm getting ready to setup a NIS server for a LAN, and I'd really like to use FreeBSD again. However, the last time I did this with FreeBSD (4.6, so not that long ago), I couldn't get the server to build a map for the home dirs. I tried an awk script in the Makefile that I saw

Re: nis/yp

2002-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:48:17PM +0100, Kasper wrote: When i add a user on my nis/yp server i need to update the nis database. How do i do this? Run 'make' in /var/yp Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks

Re: NIS/YP

2002-11-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:45:32PM +0100, Kasper wrote: Hello, when i add a new user to my nis master i copy out the userline from /etc/master.passwd and copy it to That's what pw(8)'s -V flag is for --- you can edit your /var/yp/master.password directly. /var/yp/master.passwd. How do i

Re: NIS gods angry

2002-11-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 07), Tim Kellers said: I'm using NFS to mount /usr/home from the server on the client machine. All the accounts on the server have their home directories in /usr/home ypcat passwd returns the passwd list, ypwhich returns the master server name, chpass (usernameon

Re: NIS gods angry

2002-11-07 Thread Mike Hogsett
Definitely sounds like a problem with the + line in the passwd file. Run vipw, and verify that +: is at the bottom. If it still doesn't work, try truss'ing id -u zoomba and verify that it's reading the NIS files and doing network calls. Don't forget to add +::: to

Re: NIS gods angry

2002-11-07 Thread Mike Hogsett
Thanks for the replies, guys, it's (freakin' finally) working. Thank the NIS Gods. I don't know if it was the extra blank line before the +: in /etc/master.passwd was the culprit It is likely. or the weird characters in /var/yp/ypservers. I did some reading to try and find

Re: NIS/YP -NFS -DISKLESS problem, weird

2002-10-13 Thread Ian Dowse
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hartmann, O. writes: I can see the X-Terminals and other diskless systems booting but when mounting / via NFS from the boot host, they get stuck. It seems that they can not mount the NFS file system, but that is not the problem. I exported then the root tree of the