Re: Study of yp, ipfilter, and nfsd in a transitional state from 2.0 to 2.1

[Mats O Jansson <maja@celsiustech.se>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Josh Moyer wrote:

Very much of the letter removed... But i'll try to answer some of the yp
stuff.

> In sum:
> 
> <SUMMARY>
> 
> I cannot get my NEXTSTEP 2.0 yp server and my OpenBSD 2.1 yp client to talk
> to each other.  The bindings are in place, ypcat and ypmatch both work, and
> there is network activity during the times when yp calls should be made.
> passwd lookups sort of work, but that's complicated to explain.  I suspect
> some sort of incompatibility that the yp library routines silently ignore.
> I have had this problem since 2.0.
> 
Hmm, I can't understand this. Since ypcat and ypmatch works it can't be
problems with the "yp library routines". I wrote a small test program
called yptest to check if all functions is working. It should be located
in /usr/sbin. If this works it must be something else...

I have been running an OpenBSD/sparc 2.0 as client to a SunOS 4.1.x
ypserver. But I don't know if it was the 2.0 release or a later snapshot.

Are you shure you have turned on the usage of yp in the password file?

Does eg 'ypmatch root passwd' have the same format as a line in
/etc/passwd? 

-moj

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Mats O Jansson, CelsiusTech Systems, Jaerfaella, Sweden
email: maja@celsiustech.se (or moj@stacken.kth.se)