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Re: Authentication Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rolf Fiedler)
Thu Sep 19 09:16:21 1996
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 08:19:39 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Rolf Fiedler <Rolf.Fiedler@ferrari.de>
To: "Wong P. Koon" <sakwoc@ssb.shell.com.my>
cc: "linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu" <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <c=DE%a=_%p=Ferrari%l=NT_SERVER9609181932VSKS2AA0@nt-server.ferrari.de>
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Wong P. Koon wrote:
> Hi, I am not sure if this message has been successfully sent, as I got
> some
> problems with my Netscape mail, so I post here again, sorry if you got
> it
> already:-
>
> After some thought, I am now giving NIS/NYS a try on Linux machine first
> since most of the machine is linux. So I went to set up NIS/NYS server
> using ypservr.1.0.4 and ypclient using yp-client-2.2 from Lysator.liu.se
> ftp site.
> Basically the server works fine and for client it seems to work too i.e
> ypwhich ypcat gives me the correct results. But I can't seen to have
> login to work.
> When I login to the host with ypbind, I could not login even when the
> password is in the server database. From the server debug messages, I
> notice the client didn't not ask for passwd.byname whenever I log in. It
> just show host.byname. What am I missing? Do I need to recompile login
> and if so where can I get the source for login to compile,and how?
> Better if
> someone has a login already compile that works with this ypclient-2.2
> please let me know or attach it to me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Regards,
>
> -Wong P.Koon
>
Did you put a
+ sign in your local /etc/passwd ?
Did you build the passwd.byname and passwd.byadddr databases in
/var/yp/your-domain on your yp server ?
Are you using a recent libc which supports yp passwd database searches?
5.2.x or 5.3.x schould work
hope this helps a little,
cheers,
Rolf
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