NIS authontication problem.

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 14), Hossein said:
> 	In our department we are going to use a 5.1 Stable FreeBSD, and
> it must run NIS client to authonticate the users through a Linux NIS
> server.
> 	The ypbind works well and when I do "ypcat passwd" I get the
> enteries in the passwd of the NIS server. I added the correct lines
> to passwd.master and group according to the handbook. But no user can
> log in and in the /var/log/auth.log it apears that the password is
> not corect.

If you edited passwd.master directly, you may need to run "pwd_mkdb" to
rebuild the spwd.db and pwd.db database files that the system uses. 
The "vipw" command does this automatically.  

Does "finger somenisuser" on the client print the right info?

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com