FreeBSD 4.9 - NIS Authentication Problem (SSHD Illegal User ERROR)

David Kramer dkramer at coverity.com
Mon May 12 20:42:29 UTC 2008


Thank you all for your responses, I have solved my issue.  I needed to 
have Bash installed and setup for the shell to mount properly when the 
authentication happens.  A symbolic link took care of it.

Thanks much,

DK


Volker Jahns wrote:
>
> David Kramer schrieb:
> > I am currently working on connecting a FreeBSD 4.9 client connection
> > to NIS server running on OpenBSD 3.9.  The ypcat commands are working
> > and I can see the passwd and group files, however when I attempt to
> > login to the machine I keep getting SSHD Illegal User Errors.
> As a first guess I would recommend:
> - check /etc/hosts.allow (ssh access control used by FreeBSD)
> - shadow support
> - rpcinfo -p <openbsd 3.9> works OK?
> - run ypserv daemon in foregound, check its output
>
> --
> Volker Jahns, volker at thalreit.de
>
>


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