nis don´t work properly
( I posted this letter yesterday, and it didn´t make it
to the list, so I´m trying again, if is not my intention
to flood this list)
I have been trying for a whole day to get nis to work, but it will not. I
have a minimal LAN with two computers. They both are running slink; the
server has been upgraded from hamm (2.0).
I have managed to make ypcat work, it is also possible to finger. But
when I try to login on the nis-client with my user pow the xconsole window
tells me:
May 1 17:06:21 lazy login[571]: no shadow password for `pow' on `ttyp2'
May 1 17:06:23 lazy login[571]: invalid password for `pow' on `ttyp2'
I have no idea why, I have tried many things. On the nis-server in
/var/yp I have done 'make' 'make passwd' 'make group' 'make shadow'
'make', I still don´t get it to work.
When I was ready to give up I changed the password for pow on the
nis-client with yppasswd, then it worked, and I could change it on to
server to with out any problems. But that isn´t necessary in a working
system, is it?
I have added +:::::: in passwd, +:::::::: in shadow and +::: in group and
in /var/yp/nicknames I´ve added 'shadow shadow.byname', just in case. I
have done Somme on both the nis-client and the nis-server.
If I restart the nis-server the console on the nis-client print out this
message:
May 1 18:42:27 lazy icmplogd: destination unreachable from
supreme.pow.com [192.0.0.7]
I don't know why, after all ypcat works, as well as finger.
The nis-client name is lazy and the server is supreme (but right now I
don´t think that it is so very great).
--
And I know that there are people in this
world who do not love their fellow human
beings and I hate people like that.
Contact me? Try pow@big.du.se : sy96pow@blg.du.se or
visit http://www.big.du.se/~pow/contact_page.html
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