In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'v got a Debain potato + Progeney + 2.4.3 kernel on my home lan. All uer >accounts on this are served via NIS. I am able to get the Debian box to >bind, by runing ypbind 0broadcast (why is that not the default!).
Because it's completely insecure. >Once I do >that I can ypcat passwd, and se the correct password file. However an >atempt to for example "su - amanda" Results in > >su: Authentication service cannot retireve authentication info. > >What other things do I have to tweak to make this machine co-operate with >the others. You have to read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz /usr/share/doc/<package> is the standard location for documentation. ><flame mode on> > >Why oh why is it so hard to get Debian/Linux to operate seamlessy in a >mixed environment? In my case HP-UX FreeBSD, netBSD, OpenBSD. > ><flame mode off> NIS setup is exactly the same on all those platforms. You just miss the knowledge to set it up. Which shouldn't be a problem either since there's a step by step guide included. Which you didn't care to read, instead you came here to flame. Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
