Slackware? and NIS

Slackware? and NIS

[Mauricio Silveira]

Hello there


I've notice some strange behaviour about NIS.
I'm using a slackware 9.1 box with slackware-current updates.


I've configured a server and ran make under /var/yp and then tried 
'ypcat passwd' and 'ypcat group' on a client machine; It retrieved the 
passwd file correctly, but the group was empty. Later I ran 'ypmake' and 
the 'ypcat group'  on the client side dumped the information.

And when I change the password on the server machine, I must run make 
under /var/yp, ypmake does'nt update the NIS passwd database.

So, my question is: Am I doind something wrong, or NIS is not behaving 
as it should... here?

version information:

yp-tools-2.8
ypbind-mt-1.17.2
ypmake-0.11
ypserv-2.12.1


Thanks,
Mauricio

Re: Slackware? and NIS

[Mauricio Silveira]

Jeff Largent wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 20:27, Mauricio Silveira wrote:
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>>Hello there
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>>I've notice some strange behaviour about NIS.
>>I'm using a slackware 9.1 box with slackware-current updates.
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>>I've configured a server and ran make under /var/yp and then tried 
>>'ypcat passwd' and 'ypcat group' on a client machine; It retrieved the 
>>passwd file correctly, but the group was empty. Later I ran 'ypmake' and 
>>the 'ypcat group'  on the client side dumped the information.
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>I've never run NIS on a Slackware box, but on Redhat you have to edit
>the Makefile in /var/yp.  It dosn't work straight out of the box.
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>>And when I change the password on the server machine, I must run make 
>>under /var/yp, ypmake does'nt update the NIS passwd database.
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>Did you mean running passwd on the server did not make the NIS passwd
>database?  When you are running NIS use yppasswd instead of passwd.
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I know I should run ypppasswd on the client side, but when i change some 
user's password on the server machine, running ypmake doesn't update the 
NIS databases, I MUST run make under /var/yp to get the passwords 
updated to the NIS service. This seems like a NIS/ypmake bug?

On the other side, if I run make under /var/yp for the first time, the 
"group" table is built empty, and running ypmake rebuilds it correctly.

>>So, my question is: Am I doind something wrong, or NIS is not behaving 
>>as it should... here?
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>>version information:
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>>yp-tools-2.8
>>ypbind-mt-1.17.2
>>ypmake-0.11
>>ypserv-2.12.1
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Seems like NIS 'schema' changed a lot since I last used them...

>>Thanks,
>>Mauricio
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