Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I have experimented a bit further with my debian NIS server, and this is >> what I found: >> >> >From a NIS client, I can do with my standard user account: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ypcat passwd.byname >> user1:x:1010:10

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. >>> The manual says: >>> "If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD >>> clients that h

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. >> The manual says: >> "If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD >> clients that have no support for password shadowing (which is >> mos

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. > The manual says: > "If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD > clients that have no support for password shadowing (which is > most of them), you will have to disabl

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal f

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Olivier Nicole wrote: >>> Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it >>> uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now >>> to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't >>

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it >> uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now >> to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't >> remember details). >> > > If I am not wron

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
> And, having evidently done the *wrong* thing, how do I fix the > added users so they now appear in NIS? cs /var/yp make ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it > uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now > to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't > remember details). If I am not wrong, NIS does not know anything about mas

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:54:56 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > Stupid question here, so I'll be the one to ask (seems a perfect > job for a troll like me), did you read pw.conf(5)? > Didn't even know it existed. Thanks! -- David Benfell, LCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Resume available at http://www.

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:17:59 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >> What you want to do is move the users' entries from master.passwd into > >> your NIS master file, and rebuild the maps. >

NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:29:35 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > Well I can tell you with certainty, it is not compatible out of the box, > and I have not managed to make it work (though I must admit I did not > put a lot of effort into this). Seems the exported master.passwd map > needs a filename

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> adduser(8) doesn't know anything about NIS. I don't know any >> automated way of adding users to a NIS map, but my home network is >> small enough that I don't bother. >> > I was using pw, w

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Benfell wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > >>> >>> >> The following comes from the handbook and works for me: >> >> copy your master.passwd to /var/yp, i.e: >> >> cp /etc/master.passwd /var/yp/master.passwd >> >> Edit the copy of master.passwd

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > > > The following comes from the handbook and works for me: > > copy your master.passwd to /var/yp, i.e: > > cp /etc/master.passwd /var/yp/master.passwd > > Edit the copy of master.passwd and exclude all "irrelevant" accounts > (roo

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing to make

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? > > > > The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in > > added users being propagated out to slaves. And t

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Benfell wrote: > Hello all, > > Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? > > The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in > added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is > silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doin

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? > > The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in > added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is > silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to

Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-14 Thread David Benfell
Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing to make this work. All I know