On December 17, 2004 23:12, John Greep wrote: > Martin, > > I'm maintaining my own NIS server. I can't answer all of your > questions, but I'll try. > > Basically, your client machines will have all of your system > accounts set up already. There's no purpose in remotely > authenticating them. So the /var/yp/passwd would be more of > a filter with the intent of restricting authentication to just > those users.
I think I gathered as much. I actualy think the previous sysadmin may have been playing around with the various passwd files and left these in hte wrong place. For now I'm ignoring them. > > I haven't tried changing the password, so I don't know how that > works yet. I would think that it propogates back. It's not an issue > though because it's easy to refresh the YP tables. You have to do > that anyway when you add a user. You add a user normally to the NIS > server, then do another "make" on the yp configuration. The next time > the client needs to authenticate, it will be there. > I'm going to try and change a user's password and see what happens back at the server. I'll keep you posted. > If you find out more answers to your questions, please post them. > Will do. Thanks for the help so far. Martin _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
