On Mon, 3 May 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > The thing is to see if you can get back correct data from 'ypmatch pow > shadow.byname'. > If this works then your server is doing its job. Do you have an entry in > /etc/nsswitch.conf with: > > shadow: files, nis > > in addition to the passwd: entry? The entrys in nsswitch.cnonf said: passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat wich shold do the same, but I changed that, just in case, but that didn't help. I was able to get the correct date from 'ypmatch pow shadow.byname', but that must have been because I changed the password with yppasswd. If i tried 'ypmatch otheruser shadow.byname' ypmatch told me that there weren't any key like that, so my niserver wasn't alright. I tok a look in the Make-file (in /var/yp" and by a coincidence I found an entry like this: # If you don't want some of these maps built, feel free to comment # them out from this list. all: passwd group hosts networks protocols rpc services netgrp \ netid ypservers #shadow publickey mail netid ethers bootparams # amd.home auto.master auto.home As you can see shadow was comment out, I changed that and after a `make` evrything was as it should, exept for one thing, evry user can do a `ypcat shadow`and get the whole shadowfile and that make shadowpasswords useless, but I can live with that in my two-computerLAN. Thanks a lot for your help with this, if it wasn't for your help this problem would have taken me "years" to solve. -- And I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that. Contact me? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.big.du.se/~pow/contact_page.html