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Hi,

Anyone have yppasswd operating with NIS can tell me what he added in his
rc.conf?
Because it always display user unknown. I had rpc.yppasswdd running on
the master server and ypbind on clients. Of course I can login using NIS
but I can't change passwords.

Thanks in adavnce.

Hi Miled,

Quote:> Anyone have yppasswd operating with NIS can tell me what he added in his
> rc.conf?

nis_client_enable="YES"
nisdomainname="yournisdomainname"

Quote:> Because it always display user unknown. I had rpc.yppasswdd running on
> the master server and ypbind on clients. Of course I can login using NIS
> but I can't change passwords.

Hm, silly question: did you modify the passwd and group files? You must
add (without quotes) "+:::" to /etc/group and "+:::::::::" to passwd
(vipw).

Uwe

did you add :

nis_yppasswdd_enable="YES"  # Run rpc.yppasswdd at boot time (or NO).
nis_yppasswdd_flags="-a -t /var/yp/etc/master.passwd" # Flags to
rpc.yppasswdd.

Sorry, I can't even remember were I got that from, nor what the options
mean. At least it works for me (on a 3.4-STABLE machine)

Quote:> > Because it always display user unknown. I had rpc.yppasswdd running on
> > the master server and ypbind on clients. Of course I can login using NIS
> > but I can't change passwords.
> Hm, silly question: did you modify the passwd and group files? You must
> add (without quotes) "+:::" to /etc/group and "+:::::::::" to passwd
> (vipw).

> Uwe

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Hi Frdric,

Quote:> did you add :

> nis_yppasswdd_enable="YES"  # Run rpc.yppasswdd at boot time (or NO).
> nis_yppasswdd_flags="-a -t /var/yp/etc/master.passwd" # Flags to
> rpc.yppasswdd.

> Sorry, I can't even remember were I got that from, nor what the options
> mean. At least it works for me (on a 3.4-STABLE machine)

Your running this on your NIS _server_, do you? This is not needed on
NIS _client_ machines.

Uwe

I have done all this but it still displays: "yppasswd: unknown NIS user: miled".
I can log on all clients using NIS database. The problem is only i can't change
passwords.
In the rc.conf of master server I have :
nisdomainname="armornet"
nis_server_enable="YES"
nis_client_enable="YES"
nis_yppasswdd_enable="YES"
nis_yppasswdd_flags="-a -t /var/yp/master.passwd"

In rc.conf of clients:
nisdomainname="armornet"
nis_client_enable="YES"

I have another question about 3.4-STABLE. I don't see it in the directory
releases/i386/, I just have 3.4-RELEASE so where I can find it?

Thank you for help.

Sorry for my too quick answer to your NIS problem.  I remember having
the same problem long ago, but can't remember out how I solved it. Why
don't you try erasing your compiled NIS passwd tables and rebuilding
them it case it gets better.

As for -STABLE, it's not a release, you're run it by using cvsup to get
the latest sources from a cvsup server and the compiling and upgrading
the whole OS. The process is quite easy and well documented in the
handbook - chapter 18 (regarding CVSup) and by Nik Clayton's tutorial on
"make world" (about rebuilding the OS). The initial CVSup my take time
if your link is slow, but deltas are afterwards quite fast to download.

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Hello
we are trying to configure a FreeBSD 3.1 machine to act as an NIS client
on our network.We already have an NIS server running RedHatLinux 6.0.
having edited /etc/master.passwd ,/etc/group and /etc/host.conf and
after running ypbind, i am able to finger users on the server but when
i try to log in using the password on the NIS , the login fails.Moreover,
when i try to do an su and then try yppasswd , after asking for my old
password on the NIS server, it says sorry and exits.
we have been trying to figure this out for quite some time but with no
luck.We are really keen on getting FreeBSD onto our network but the
machine would be a waste without NIS.
could some one please help me out?
Thanks in advance
jug

nis_domain="whatever-yours-is"
nis_server_enable="YES"
nis_server_flags=""
nis_ypset_enable="YES"
nis_yppassword_enable="YES"
nis_yppassword_flags=""

then you may want to nfs mount their home directories and/or  other stuff

- Vince