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 followed, step-by-step the NIS > guide in the handbook: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- > nis.html > > In my test environment, I have two servers set up: BoxA and BoxB. > BoxA is the NIS Master running 5.4, BoxB is the NIS client running > 4.11. I have created a NIS user named "charlie" on BoxA. I am > able to log into BoxB as charlie. Great so far, right? ypcat > demonstrates that the correct user on BoxB is coming down and ypwhich > passwd shows that BoxA is BoxB's daddy. > > Now, I want to be able to change "charlie"'s NIS password while I'm > logged into BoxB. Here's where I run into problems. Whenever I run > yppasswd or passwd as charlie, I get "Permission Denied." I know > I've run into this error before (without ever being able to fix it) > and after googling for quite some time, I've been unable to find > anyone else who seems to be running into this problem -- but I know > other people must have encountered this before, because I'm not doing > anything fancy. This is the most vanilla install of NIS I can create. > > If anyone has any hints on where I should look from here, I would > very much appreciate it!
I just set it up yesterday with no problem, working from the same doc. Have you got yppasswdd running? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
