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Quote:>I edited /etc/master.passwd and
>/etc/passwd and made the last line "+:"

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I am trying to setup yellow pages on a NetBSD system so that users can
log into the machine using the accounts they have on the main UNIX
development machine.

I setup the NetBSD machine to run as a YP client.  ypmatch etc work so
the machine is talking to server okay.  I edited /etc/master.passwd and
/etc/passwd and made the last line "+:"

When I try doing "login" as user "bogus" it fails, even though user
"bogus" is a valid account on the development machine.   A "su bogus"
fails with "su: unknown login bogus".  A "passwd bogus" comes up with
"Changing YP passwd for bogus" so it seems to me as if things should
work okay.

I ran "pwd_mkdb" over the master.passwd file but it doesn't like the
"+:" so I suspect this is the problem.  Anyone know what I am missing
here ?

thanks,
Patrick.

Quote:> Don't do this. Use `vipw' to edit the master.passwd file, and add
> +::::::: (or whatever the right number of colons is) to the end of
> the file.

thanks,
Patrick.