Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

[Jonathan H N Chin <jc254@newton.cam.ac.uk>]

aurelien wrote:
> - Are the accounts really locked, or the problem only appears with
>   ypcat?

Unfortunately I did not make any notes on the procedure I used.
I think it was just:

    - create an account on nis server with gecos containing non-ascii
    - set "passwd: nis" in /etc/nsswitch.conf on nis client
    - try to login to nis client on console or via ssh

However I cannot replicate the login problem anymore.
I wonder if I forgot to change /bin/tcsh (which doesn't exist
on my linux boxes) to /bin/bash when I tested previously.


> - Does the 'id' command works for the accounts using non-ascii chars?

I don't know how to login to an account that has non-ascii
characters in it so I can't test that.


> - Could you please run the ypcat command using:
>      'LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 ypcat'
>   (note that you may have to generate the corresponding locale)

This works.



-jonathan

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