From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mauricio Silveira Subject: Re: Slackware? and NIS Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 01:45:26 -0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40B420E6.7020004@linuxbr.com> References: <40B292F0.2030906@linuxbr.com> <1085487070.1492.15.camel@mcbain.imagelinks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1085487070.1492.15.camel@mcbain.imagelinks.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jeff Largent , linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Jeff Largent wrote: >On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 20:27, Mauricio Silveira wrote: > > >>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. >> >> >> > >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. > > > >>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. >> >> >> > >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. > > > 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? >> >>version information: >> >>yp-tools-2.8 >>ypbind-mt-1.17.2 >>ypmake-0.11 >>ypserv-2.12.1 >> >> Seems like NIS 'schema' changed a lot since I last used them... >>Thanks, >>Mauricio >> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> >> > > > > >