Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. The manual says: If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD clients that have no support for

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-18 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have experimented a bit further with my debian NIS server, and this is what I found: From a NIS client, I can do with my standard user account: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ypcat passwd.byname user1:x:1010:1010:Joe

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. The manual says: If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD clients that have no support for password shadowing (which is most of them), you will have to disable the

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read this the first time I tried and decided not to go with it. The manual says: If you plan to use a FreeBSD system to serve non-FreeBSD clients that have no support for password shadowing (which is most of them), you

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olivier Nicole wrote: Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't remember

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-16 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Olivier Nicole wrote: Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
David Benfell wrote: Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing to make

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: The following comes from the handbook and works for me: copy your master.passwd to /var/yp, i.e: cp /etc/master.passwd /var/yp/master.passwd Edit the copy of master.passwd and exclude all irrelevant accounts (root,servers

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Benfell wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:57:27 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: The following comes from the handbook and works for me: copy your master.passwd to /var/yp, i.e: cp /etc/master.passwd /var/yp/master.passwd Edit the copy of master.passwd and exclude all

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: adduser(8) doesn't know anything about NIS. I don't know any automated way of adding users to a NIS map, but my home network is small enough that I don't bother. I was using pw, which claims

NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:29:35 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Well I can tell you with certainty, it is not compatible out of the box, and I have not managed to make it work (though I must admit I did not put a lot of effort into this). Seems the exported master.passwd map needs a filename

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:17:59 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Benfell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:54:45 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: What you want to do is move the users' entries from master.passwd into your NIS master file, and rebuild the maps. Do I also

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread David Benfell
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:54:56 -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Stupid question here, so I'll be the one to ask (seems a perfect job for a troll like me), did you read pw.conf(5)? Didn't even know it existed. Thanks! -- David Benfell, LCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Resume available at

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't remember details). If I am not wrong, NIS does not know anything about

Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
And, having evidently done the *wrong* thing, how do I fix the added users so they now appear in NIS? cs /var/yp make ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: NIS interoperability with Linux, was Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Olivier Nicole wrote: Linux doesn't normally use master.passwd. If I recall correctly, it uses /etc/shadow instead (but I don't have such a box at hand right now to check). And yes, the internal format is different (and, again, I don't remember details). If I am not wrong, NIS does

Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS

2007-10-14 Thread David Benfell
Hello all, Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing to make this work. All I know

Re: ports adding users

2006-10-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Friday 13 October 2006 21:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: The convention is, indeed, that users get UIDs from 1000 up. This doesn't seem to be explicitly described anywhere I can find at the moment, but it is implemented in adduser(8) -- and the porter's handbook requires hard-coded UIDs and

Re: ports adding users

2006-10-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is, I guess, a philosophical question. Twice in the last couple of weeks I have been bitten by ports adding users or groups. In setting up my laptop, I created my user account in sysinstall without creating my group. My ~ was created

ports adding users

2006-10-12 Thread Jonathan McKeown
This is, I guess, a philosophical question. Twice in the last couple of weeks I have been bitten by ports adding users or groups. In setting up my laptop, I created my user account in sysinstall without creating my group. My ~ was created with the GID corresponding to my UID, but in building

Re: Adding users...

2003-11-27 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Xpression: Hi list, I installed Apache and ProFTPd servers, users can upload tehir sites via FTP, I have configured in Apache DocumentRoot in /usr/local/apache2/wwwroot, my question is: can I create users which their home directories path is /usr/local/apache2/wwwroot/userN ???

Re: Adding users...

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:31:27PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote: 3) If you want to have your user directories outside of the document root, you will have to setup an Alias for each user, or to define another virtual host. But that becomes close to solution 1 in that

Adding users...

2003-11-26 Thread Xpression
Hi list, I installed Apache and ProFTPd servers, users can upload tehir sites via FTP, I have configured in Apache DocumentRoot in /usr/local/apache2/wwwroot, my question is: can I create users which their home directories path is /usr/local/apache2/wwwroot/userN ??? Is this way trustable ??? I

Re: Adding users...

2003-11-26 Thread Jez Hancock
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:09:38PM -0500, Xpression wrote: Hi list, I installed Apache and ProFTPd servers, users can upload tehir sites via FTP, I have configured in Apache DocumentRoot in /usr/local/apache2/wwwroot, my question is: can I create users which their home directories path is

Automated systems - adding users and sites

2003-07-31 Thread Jonathan
Hi all, I'm looking at writing a simple interface to allow the creation of websites through a web based tool. Are there any guides to this sort of thing? My thinking at the moment is to allow the web user on a secured server to log into another server through ssh as root (passwordless) to

Re: Security of adding users for accounts ??

2003-07-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i hope this isn't too silly a question, but one of the really easy ways we've found to manage accounts for customers is to just go and create actual unix accounts for them on our FreeBSD boxes, which helps us organise everything from directories to where

Security of adding users for accounts ??

2003-07-19 Thread Mark
hey! i hope this isn't too silly a question, but one of the really easy ways we've found to manage accounts for customers is to just go and create actual unix accounts for them on our FreeBSD boxes, which helps us organise everything from directories to where programs look for their info,

Re: Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7

2002-12-09 Thread Kenzo
: Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7 At 10:14 AM 11.24.2002 -0800, KevinG wrote: Hello, I installed 4.7 on a new box and when I try to add users (by running adduser) I smack into a roadblock; the system asks that I enter the username, which I do, and it continues to insist that I enter

Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7

2002-11-24 Thread KevinG
Hello, I installed 4.7 on a new box and when I try to add users (by running adduser) I smack into a roadblock; the system asks that I enter the username, which I do, and it continues to insist that I enter the username again, over and over... It seems the regular expressions feature is

Re: Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7

2002-11-24 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 10:14 AM 11.24.2002 -0800, KevinG wrote: Hello, I installed 4.7 on a new box and when I try to add users (by running adduser) I smack into a roadblock; the system asks that I enter the username, which I do, and it continues to insist that I enter the username again, over and over...

Re: Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7

2002-11-24 Thread Unix Tools
ENTER ON THE PROMPT. Cheers - Original Message - From: KevinG [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:44 PM Subject: Adding users in FreeBSD 4.7 Hello, I installed 4.7 on a new box and when I try to add users (by running adduser) I smack