Re: GNU/Linux NIS tweaks was: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-16 Thread FRLinux
configuring NIS without editing Makefiles. Ah right, see I was given a choice between NIS and LDAP back in 2003 and started with OpenLDAP (after many years using/administering NIS). I have never looked back since. Cheers, Steph ___ freebsd-questions

GNU/Linux NIS tweaks was: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-15 Thread James Phillips
anything. SNIP! Cheers, Steph It may have to do with what you are doing. At the NFS protocol level, they are compatible as far as I can tell. However, in my testing (trying to set up a file server in a heterogeneous environment) I had problems configuring NIS without editing Makefiles. GNU

NIS table and the local passwd are out of sync

2011-01-14 Thread Thomas
Hello I hope someone can give me some hints on how to fix a NIS problem. My FreeBSD 7.2 (amd64) system works as NIS Server and a 8.1-STABLE (amd64) machine as a NIS client. It was configured as described at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-nis.html. Syncing between server and client

NIS server doesn't receive its own passwd entries to nsswitch

2010-12-31 Thread Florian Wagner
Hi, I've just configured FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 to act as a NIS server and as a client to itself. What works: A Linux client can query NIS. As in ypcat passwd/group and getent passwd/group show the entries from the server. The server can query its on NIS provided groups (ypcat passwd/group

Setup for NIS master: make isn't seeing my sources

2010-07-23 Thread David Wolfskill
[I'm not subscribed to -questions, so please include me in responses. I've provided a valid Reply-To as a hint to your MUA.] For the last 14 years or so, my NIS server on the home network has been a SPARCstation 5/170 running Solaris 2.6; I'm finally getting around to decommissioning

NIS passwd file is never updated with new users

2010-03-11 Thread Thomas
Hi I've configured a NIS master server as descriped in the freebsd handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-nis.html). I removed all super and system users from master.passwd in /var/yp, chmod 600 master.passwd and initialized my NIS master server without any errors. ypcat passwd

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

NIS oops

2010-01-20 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I set up and tested NIS on our new master server then rebooted and it failed to come up... it is not possible for me to get physical access (or anyone else for that matter) until tommorow afternoon... is there any way to use an other machine on the net to kick start it (NFS mount attempts

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 http://lists.freebsd.org

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

NIS users can't login with FTPD

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Bonnet
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 telnet NIS users have no problem to log in ... Thank for any

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: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
enough time and resources, any password can be cracked. I really do not when enough time is somehow like lifetime of a star ;) (unless you choose bad passwords). understand why so many users insist on using passwords anyway. 2 reasons: - It's the default - Less hassle getting access from

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-12 Thread Mel
On Thursday 11 December 2008 12:40:10 Jerry wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:11:26 +0100 Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: 6) Disable password based logins and use keys only. Personally, I have always used 'keys' instead of passwords. Given enough time and resources, any

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-11 Thread Mel
On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:10:09 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Given, there's several solutions to this: 1) The Kluge as above. 2) A pam module to check /etc/group (this is standard login behavior, and historically supported, and available on other platforms, adding a module, even

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-11 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:11:26 +0100 Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:10:09 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Given, there's several solutions to this: 1) The Kluge as above. 2) A pam module to check /etc/group (this is standard login behavior, and historically

How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, I'm noticing that when following the directions given here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-nis.html For how to disable logins, the recommended action is to set the shell to /sbin/nologin. However, this is sloppy as it allows the user to log in, get the motd,

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
and prove that the account works. By default, the passwd field is ignored in an NIS + or - line. It looks like if you rebuild libc with PW_OVERRIDE_PASSWD=1, you will get the behaviour you're looking for (see the compat_set_template function in src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c). Okay, let's look

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Nelson
password, like x), and those don't seem to work. I am still able to connect via sshd and prove that the account works. By default, the passwd field is ignored in an NIS + or - line. It looks like if you rebuild libc with PW_OVERRIDE_PASSWD=1, you will get the behaviour you're looking

Re: How to block NIS logins via ssh?

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
, (and putting in a bad password, like x), and those don't seem to work. I am still able to connect via sshd and prove that the account works. By default, the passwd field is ignored in an NIS + or - line. It looks like if you rebuild libc with PW_OVERRIDE_PASSWD=1, you will get the behaviour you're

nspluginwrapper and NIS

2008-10-30 Thread Rich Winkel
Has anyone noticed that nspluginwrapper -a -i -v crashes when operating under a userid which is defined under NIS? If you put the user's full master.passwd entry in the local master.passwd it works fine. Rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Does 7.0 is NIS compatible by default ?

2008-03-19 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I've setup NIS client on a fresh 7.0 installed machine but it is unable to su to a NIS account , id command give a user unknown response, BUT ypcat or ypmatch commands works ... Thanks for any help/infos. Frank ___ freebsd-questions

NIS in a jail?

2008-02-12 Thread Eric Osterweil
to get one of the jails to be a NIS slave and it seemed to come online and get maps OK, but no other servers could use it. I've set up NIS before, so I think I've got that part ok. Anyway, I tried to make it a master today for other reasons, but also so I could repeat the setup process

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

NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-18 Thread RA Cohen
I've read most of what is out there on NIS - Linux interoperability. Unfortunately, nothing explains what we encountered on a FreeBSD 6.2 machine running NFS and NIS: 1. FreeBSD clients work as advertised, they interpret the password maps correctly; we export the server's /usr/home filesystem

NIS Linux - Ubuntu

2007-12-18 Thread RA Cohen
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 apparently FreeBSD thought it was presented

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 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
secure, where in fact I should be able to make FreeBSD export a shadow.byname map that would be compatible with Linux. Am I missing something here / are my assumptions wrong? I think you are assuming that Linux uses password shadowing over NIS. This is not possible, and no system does

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 User

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

2007-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
a shadow.byname map that would be compatible with Linux. Am I missing something here / are my assumptions wrong? I think you are assuming that Linux uses password shadowing over NIS. This is not possible, and no system does it. The FreeBSD security method in question just forces requests for the password

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

2007-10-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
FreeBSD export a shadow.byname map that would be compatible with Linux. Am I missing something here / are my assumptions wrong? I think you are assuming that Linux uses password shadowing over NIS. This is not possible, and no system does it. The FreeBSD security method in question just

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

2007-10-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
details). If I am not wrong, NIS does not know anything about master.passwd or shadow, it has only passwd.byname passwd.byuid as password maps, both maps including password in them. Olivier You are probably right, I don't remember the exact files right now, the thing is the maps

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

2007-10-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
(and, again, I don't remember details). If I am not wrong, NIS does not know anything about master.passwd or shadow, it has only passwd.byname passwd.byuid as password maps, both maps including password in them. Olivier You are probably right, I don't remember

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing to make

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
and so on) Then run: ypinit -m your-nis.domain So the message I'm getting here is that the procedure used to initially set up NIS is the same as that used to update NIS. Further down that page, it claims that pw can be used to add users to an existing scheme: quote 27.4.8 Important Things

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
irrelevant accounts (root,servers and so on) Then run: ypinit -m your-nis.domain So the message I'm getting here is that the procedure used to initially set up NIS is the same as that used to update NIS. Further down that page, it claims that pw can be used to add users to an existing

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: adduser(8) doesn't know anything about NIS. I don't know any automated way of adding users to a NIS map, but my home network is small enough that I don't bother. I was using pw, which claims

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

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
change + internal changes, thus the NIS Makefile needs to be modified. On the Linux side, the users are visible (e.g. you can run id username and the user is there) but they cannot login. If you Google FreeBSD NIS Server Linux Clients you will get some patches for the NIS Makefile to make it Linux

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:17:59 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: What you want to do is move the users' entries from master.passwd into your NIS master file, and rebuild the maps. Do I also

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:54:56 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Stupid question here, so I'll be the one to ask (seems a perfect job for a troll like me), did you read pw.conf(5)? Didn't even know it existed. Thanks! -- David Benfell, LCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Resume available at

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: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
And, having evidently done the *wrong* thing, how do I fix the added users so they now appear in NIS? cs /var/yp make ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

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

Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-14 Thread David Benfell
Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing to make this work. All I know

NIS server over IPv6

2007-08-31 Thread Prabhu Harihar
Hi Group, 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. Thanks in Advance, Prabhu H

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 11:15

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

configuring nis

2007-05-21 Thread WarrenHead
Hi, I have been having some trouble with getting NIS working on my freebsd server. Mainly because I have never before used this. I now have it working, but there is an odd inconsistency which I don't know how to remove/update. I changed the gid of a user with: 'pw usermod -n sam -g 1000

Re: configuring nis

2007-05-21 Thread WarrenHead
WarrenHead schreef: Hi, I have been having some trouble with getting NIS working on my freebsd server. Mainly because I have never before used this. I now have it working, but there is an odd inconsistency which I don't know how to remove/update. I changed the gid of a user with: 'pw

Re: configuring nis

2007-05-21 Thread WarrenHead
Reid Linnemann schreef: Written by WarrenHead on 05/21/07 15:34 Hi, I have been having some trouble with getting NIS working on my freebsd server. Mainly because I have never before used this. I now have it working, but there is an odd inconsistency which I don't know how to remove/update

Re: configuring nis

2007-05-21 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by WarrenHead on 05/21/07 15:34 Hi, I have been having some trouble with getting NIS working on my freebsd server. Mainly because I have never before used this. I now have it working, but there is an odd inconsistency which I don't know how to remove/update. I changed the gid

Re: configuring nis

2007-05-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
WarrenHead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been having some trouble with getting NIS working on my freebsd server. Mainly because I have never before used this. I now have it working, but there is an odd inconsistency which I don't know how to remove/update. I changed the gid of a user

Re: configuring nis

2007-05-21 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by WarrenHead on 05/21/07 16:11 Reid Linnemann schreef: Written by WarrenHead on 05/21/07 15:34 Hi, I have been having some trouble with getting NIS working on my freebsd server. Mainly because I have never before used this. I now have it working, but there is an odd inconsistency

NIS intermittent connection trouble

2006-12-27 Thread Dan Casey
I have an NIS server setup on a specific vlan. All my nis clients are setup on separate vlans with different networks. All of my clients have the same problem. When i run /etc/rc.d/ypbind start then /etc/rc.d/ypset start, everything works properly. However it will stop working for no apparent

NIS intermittent connection trouble

2006-12-27 Thread Dan Casey
I have an NIS server setup on a specific vlan. All my nis clients are setup on separate vlans with different networks. All of my clients have the same problem. When i run /etc/rc.d/ypbind start then /etc/rc.d/ypset start, everything works properly. However it will stop working for no apparent

configuring nis

2006-11-06 Thread Tyler Spivey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I realize there is a nis section in the handbook, and I've read that. I was wondering how you configured the nis master.passwd maps, after you add a user with: pw useradd something - - the something user isn't automatically propegated to the /var/yp

RHEL 4 slave NIS server setup problem

2006-10-12 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, Hope someone can help me here. We have a NIS master server running on FreeBSD 4.11. RHEL clients can bind to the server without any problem. Now I want to add another nis slave server using RHEL 4. When I issued command /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -s master, I got following errors: We will need

NIS ypserv problem with client ypbind

2006-10-11 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, We are running a NIS server on FreeBSD 4.7. Clients running Gentoo can not bind to the server. The ypbind on Gentoo client is ypbind-1.19.1-r1. Tests with NIS servrs running on Gentoo and Redhat machines do not show any problem with the same Gentoo clients. I tried to find version

freebsd nis and solaris

2006-08-25 Thread rchitecture
ypcat command, all results return correctly i have standard nis map, like auto_volume/auto_home/packages..pretty standard all i need from this yp services is to be able to ie cd /home/ and /volume/, and its not showing up, it just hang, control c to get out also i've mande

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

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

NIS and Kerberos 5 : is it possible / smart?

2006-08-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
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 sort of overkill perhaps, where NIS is not really needed? I

Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-23 Thread David Robillard
I have 2 NICS in the master node of a small cluster. bge0 is connected to the outside world with a FQDN and registered DNS IP address. bge1 is connected to a 192.168.0.x internal network. I'm trying to configure NIS for the internal network, but ypinit is grabbing the FQDN. I've read

Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-20 Thread Steve Kargl
trying to configure NIS for the internal network, but ypinit is grabbing the FQDN. I've read the Handbook and ypinit manual page without too much enlightment. :( What I'm after is 192.168.0.10 NIS master server 192.168.0.11 NIS slave server 192.168.0.[12-15] NIS clients Anyone have

Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Steve Kargl wrote: I can't even get NIS set up with ypinit. It unconditionally uses /bin/hostname, which will grab the FQDN of the system. You have given me an idea. I can change rc.conf to set hostname to the name I've given 192.168.0.10, put that on bge0, put the IP address associated

Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-20 Thread Steve Kargl
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Steve Kargl wrote: I can't even get NIS set up with ypinit. It unconditionally uses /bin/hostname, which will grab the FQDN of the system. You have given me an idea. I can change rc.conf to set hostname to the name I've given

Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-19 Thread Steve Kargl
I have 2 NICS in the master node of a small cluster. bge0 is connected to the outside world with a FQDN and registered DNS IP address. bge1 is connected to a 192.168.0.x internal network. I'm trying to configure NIS for the internal network, but ypinit is grabbing the FQDN. I've read

Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-19 Thread Derek Ragona
with a FQDN and registered DNS IP address. bge1 is connected to a 192.168.0.x internal network. I'm trying to configure NIS for the internal network, but ypinit is grabbing the FQDN. I've read the Handbook and ypinit manual page without too much enlightment. :( What I'm after is 192.168.0.10 NIS

Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-19 Thread Lawrence Horvath
There isnt a way to specify which ip or interface NIS will bind to? On 5/19/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If memory serves YP will grab the first interface. If you switch the stacks/IPs on the interfaces I think you will get what you want. -Derek At 05:48 PM 5/19/2006

FreeBSD NIS server authenticating Linux

2006-05-02 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
Hello, i'm trying to bind a Linux client (Fedora Core 5) to a FreeBSD 6.1-RC NIS Server. The linux client seems to bind correctly to the NIS Domain. Anyway when i try to log into the linux machine i can't log in. As i have seen on google, there seems to be some kind of problem with a neccesary

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

NIS

2006-04-07 Thread freebsd
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 should be added to the nis maps. Am I missing something, as I have

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

root authentication FreeBSD NIS client

2006-03-24 Thread Jose Fragoso
Dear All, I have set up an OpenBSD NIS server which is working as expected. However, there is one point I have not understood yet. My NIS clients are FreeBSD stations. I have added an entry at the bottom of /etc/passwd to request NIS authentication. But the behaviour of the root account

FBSD5 and FBSD6 aren't too keen on the SFU/AD NIS server

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Hatfield
My current situation is that I have a Solaris based NIS server and various client machines, including FreeBSD. A production FreeBSD 5 machine and a test FreeBSD 6 machine work just fine with it, except for a small glitch on the FreeBSD 6 machine: speyburn# ypwhich panther.internal.local speyburn

NIS client differences between FBSD5 and FBSD6?

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Hatfield
Still trying to migrate our NIS from an old Sparc to a Services For Unix/Active Directory setup. AMD won't play so I'm using text files for that. Now to move forward to actually logging in A test machine running FreeBSD 6 seems to work OK, though ypwhich -m behaves strangely: speyburn# uname

Courier-imap and NIS

2006-01-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I want to set-up a simple courier-imap server that can authenticate with plain passwords from NIS. I installed courier-imap from the ports, but authentication of the style 1 login name password is refused each time: * BYE Temporary problem, please try again later An by the way, where/how

amd doesn't like NIS maps from a Windows NIS server

2006-01-11 Thread Jim Hatfield
We've been using NIS-based automounter maps for ages, using a Solaris NIS server. Some of our machines use autofs type maps, and some use amd, notably the FreeBSD boxes. As part of a move to single sign-on I've implemented a NIS server using Microsoft's Services for Unix installed on an Active

NIS versus LDAP authentication

2005-12-26 Thread Brent
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 server

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

FreeBSD as nis client using Linux nis server

2005-12-12 Thread Julian D. Seifert
Hi List, I was told there are no bigger problems using nis with Linux as server so i tried to configure my Freebsd6.0 to use my Linux nis server. (Linux 2.6.12 Debian sarge ypserv 2.14 I followed the advises from: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html on how

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

NIS on FreeBSD 5.4/4.11

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Jeung
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 followed, step-by-step the NIS guide

yp/nis in jails

2005-10-09 Thread Paul Allen
Is it possible to run yp/nis inside of a jail? Is is possible to run the automounter (amd) inside of a jail? -Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

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 (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook

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

NIS problems on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-08 Thread Jeremy Utley
Greetings all! 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

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

Odd nis problem..

2005-06-09 Thread Micheal Patterson
I've used yp in FBSD for some time now. I've never ran across this particular issue though, until now. My layout. I have a 4.10 yp master server. I have various servers linked to it including other fbsd 5.3 servers. They do well. However, I have one inparticular server that simply will not

Re: Odd nis problem..

2005-06-09 Thread Micheal Patterson
- From: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:54 AM Subject: Odd nis problem.. I've used yp in FBSD for some time now. I've never ran across this particular issue though, until now. My layout. I have a 4.10 yp master server. I have

FreeBSD 5.3 and NIS

2005-05-19 Thread Micheal Patterson
I'm running nfs/nis off of a FreeBSD 4.10 system. I have a secondary NIS master on a freebsd 5.3 system and so far, everything is cool between them. There is one thing that I've noticed that I've never seen before though. I have a nfs mount mounted but the permissions for the group show

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and NIS

2005-05-19 Thread Tony Shadwick
I know this is going to be a hot in the dark for me since I left 4x behind quite a long while ago, but I seem to remember reading something about some compatibility issues between nis on 4x and 5x. There were changes that could be made to work around it, but wow...I just don't remember where

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