Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:15:21PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote:
> 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.
Do you mean that you are now able to login on those accounts?
> > - 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.
>
Actually you don't need to login on an account, you can just 'id
username' to query the different users.
> > - 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.
This seems to say that the problem is in the nis package instead of the
glibc package.
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