Did you enable the insecure option from /var/yp/Makefile so that passwords appear in the passwd map? By default I believe it expects clients to read the master.passwd map, which naturally Linux does not.
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:50:14PM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > > This should work; I've got a Linux machine at work succesfully > > authenticating NIS accounts against a FreeBSD server. I believe > > that the differences in passwd files are strictly in the master.passwd > > (FreeBSD) and shadow (Linux) files; the files /etc/passwd have the > > same format in both OS'. > > > > I'd suspect problems in the way the clients have been configured. > > Check that the password and group files have been set up correctly > > (I screw up the sequence of plus signs and colons regularly), and > > that the NIS domain has been set. > > > > So how does Linux authenticate the password? 'ypwhich -m' shows passwd.byname, > passwd.byuid, master.passwd.byname, master.passwd.byuid but of course there > is no shadow.byname or shadow.byuid. > > I believe that I have the passwd and group files set up correctly on the Linux > machines, and I don't really know where to look next. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isite Services, Inc. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
