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Re: NIS: Linux client and AIX server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Swen Thuemmler)
Thu Mar 21 08:05:29 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:01:04 +0100 (MET)
From: Swen Thuemmler <swen@uni-paderborn.de>
To: roth@uiuc.edu
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199603192152.PAA10235@sparc17.cs.uiuc.edu>
On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, roth mark daniel wrote:
[...]
> The Linux box is running Linux 1.3.64, libc 5.2.18, and
> yp-clients-2.2. `ypcat passwd` gives the passwd map correctly from
> the server, with all the encrypted password strings exactly as they
> should be. However, login wont let any of the users login. Closer
> investigation revealed that getpwnam(3) is returning "*" in
> p->pw_passwd instead of the encrypted string.
>
> So what am I doing wrong? I'm assuming this is a problem with libc
> being configured incorrectly. Any ideas? All
> help/comments/suggestions/ideas appreciated. Thanks in advance.
You did not read the README for yp-clients-2.2. I bet, the last line in
/etc/passwd reads
+:*:0:0:::
which will effectively give all NIS users a pw_passwd of "*". Change this
line to just a single
+
and all should work well.
Hope this helps.
--Swen
