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Hello,

I have a number of linux hosts that I would like to connect with NIS.

I got the ypserv program running fine on linux box 1, but when I try to
login to linux box 2, the passwords do not work. As root, on box 2,
I can however successfully run "ypcat passwd" and I see the password file
from linux box 1 just fine. ypwhich returns the correct server name
from linux box 1, and domainname returns the same domainname, in case
you wondered.

What am I missing here??

Thanks for any pointers...

-Borries

: Hello,

: I have a number of linux hosts that I would like to connect with NIS.

: I got the ypserv program running fine on linux box 1, but when I try to
: login to linux box 2, the passwords do not work. As root, on box 2,
: I can however successfully run "ypcat passwd" and I see the password file
: from linux box 1 just fine. ypwhich returns the correct server name
: from linux box 1, and domainname returns the same domainname, in case
: you wondered.

Does finger user works on box 2 ?
The last line in /etc/passwd should contain only a "+".
If you use something like +::0:0::::, do not put a * in the
password field, this will overwrite the password.

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It's not too late to turn back from the "Gates" of Hell...
Use Linux, the free 32-bit operating system.

But I'd suggest getting rid of NIS and use ssh+rdist instead,
for obvious reasons. (besides (in)security, you don't want all your
machines to hang waiting for the NIS server to respond when it
is down, do you?).

Laurentiu
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