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

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

aurelien wrote:
> Do you mean that you are now able to login on those accounts?

I don't normally have user accounts on my linux servers.
The test accounts that I have just created let me log in, yes.



> Actually you don't need to login on an account, you can just 'id
> username' to query the different users.

Yes, it works.



> > >      'LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 ypcat'
> > This works.
> 
> This seems to say that the problem is in the nis package instead of the
> glibc package.

There's only one way to find out... FIGHT!



-jonathan

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