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From: pflores@alpha1.phoenix.net (Paul Flores)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help on NIS client
Date: 28 Jun 1996 04:45:02 GMT
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Jin Guojun[ITG] (jin@gracie.lbl.gov) wrote:
: I have installed NIS server on one FreeBSD machine by set following flags
: in /etc/sysconfig:
: nis_serverflags="-dns -k" #for 2.1R, or "-n" for 2.2-SNAP
: yppasswddflags="-m /var/yp/master.passwd -s -f"
: defaultdomainname=test
: cd /var/yp
: echo NISServName > ypservers
: echo $subnet $netmask > securenets
: make
: reboot
: ----------------------------------------
: On a NIS client machine, I did this in /etc/sysconfig:
: nis_clientflags="-s"
: nis_ypsetflags="NISServName"
: defaultdomainname=test
: reboot
: ypwhich
: NISServName
: ypcat passwd | grep myname
: myname:password-encrypted:uid:....
: cd ~myname
: Unknown user: myname.
: Would some one please point what I missed?
Might be too simple, but I will ask anyway...
Did you remember the +:::::::: in the passwd file?
Paul Flores
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