*BSD and Linux have very different password file formats. You may want to look into that. try running 'ypmatch nistest passwd' on the linux box when it is bound to the FreeBSD server. Make sure that the line you get back looks like: nistest:8LYUXxAbvWO.I:427:249:Nis Test User:/home/nistest:/bin/sh The BSD guys have additional fields (I believe they are optional) in the passwd line for the user's login class, the password change time, and the account expiration time. Last time that I set this up, I remember hacking the yp Makefile so that it would throw away these extra fields. Hope this helps, Jim On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 grega@gregadams.dyndns.org wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Redhat 7.2 machine to be an NIS client for a > FreeBSD 4.6 NIS server. I get output from ypcat, ypwhich, but > authentication always fails for nis profiles. I've already seen the > posts about pam_unix.so, and have changed to pam_pwdb.so in pam.d's > system-auth, login, rlogin, etc., with no success. > > I get the following error messages in my /var/log/messages on the RH > system upon trying to ssh using an NIS profile named nistest, which has > a password of 8 plain characters: > > PAM_pwdb [11070]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> nistest for sshd > service > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pam-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \x83\xec\x0c\x31\xc0\x31\xd2\x68\x2f\x73\x68\x21\x68\x2f\x62\x69\x6e\x89\xe3 \x88\x43\x07\x50\x50\x53\x53\xb0\x3b\xcd\x80\x89\xf6 Don't forget FreeBSD! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Pam-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
