Re: NIS/AMD questions
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On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> I know this is not related to debian, but...
>
> 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the
> console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like
> root) should be always accessible.
Can root log in over the network? Are you running anything
"non-standard" in the way of PAM or shadow support? Which
version of yp-client are you using? I'm using the linux
version available on sunsite (circa '95) and it works fine.
I have a very slow link back to NY (where the ypservers are
running on Solaris via niskit1.2) and ypbind sometimes gags
and hoses everything except local entries. I can usually
kill ypbind and restart it with ypset and pick a server
that's behaving, but not always. In any case, root (or any
local account) can always log in. I'm not running anything
else (i.e. PAM, shadow).
>
> 2) I have amd which download its maps from a NIS server. If the NIS
> server is down, then amd will complain, but it won't try to reload
> the maps once the NIS server is back up. I've tried to use
> -cache:=none, but it doesn't help.
amd is a buggy beast indeed. It was never intended for
general distribution, but rather for experimentation. The
fact that BSD 4.4 included it seemed to give it credability
it didn't deserve. I don't think there's been any active
maintenance of it since the 4.4 release (and even then they
just fixed some rather nasty bugs and put in in the release
to say they had one.)
Sorry I couldn't be of more help. The new autofs included
in the 2.1 kernels sounds promising though.
Cheers,
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Richard
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