[ntp:hackers] Re: ntp_adjtime: ntp_loopfilter.c and ntp_request.c

Mark Martinec Mark.Martinec at ijs.si
Tue Dec 28 05:41:16 PST 2004


Dave,

> I installed Freebie 5.3 on two machines, wannabee campus server ...
> But, something is broken in the user creation process. I was able to
> create myself on mort, but I can't even do that on beauregard. The
> adduser program apparently creates the values and updates the passwd and
> master.passwd files, but then claims the user "was lost". The entries
> look okay, but the login fails. And, the NIS maps don't even get off the
> ground. I carefully checked passwd, master.passwd and group and they all
> look okay.

Don't have much experience with NIS, but perhaps the handbook
holds some answer:
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html

See also manpage yp(8) (->COMPATIBILITY section), and ypserv(8).

  Mark



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