Re: broken NIS clients
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:52:49PM +0530, Shashank Ashtikar wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> I recently ran an upgrade on my system which is debian sid(most of it) during
> the upgrade I noticed that libc6 version is also being upgraded .
>
> After the upgrade I noticed that my machine rejects any NIS login. It allows
> login through local accounts though.
>
> I have attched two sections of auth.log file
>
> here user shashank is a NIS user. If I do ypcat passwd or passwd.byname I get
> the entire passwd db from NIS sever. also ypwhich points to correct ypserver.
> We have only one NIS server on the network and no NIS slaves running.
>
> My experience with NIS is not very vast.
>
> I went through google but those docs did not help me much.
If you check back through recent archives, you'll
see that I had the same problem and posted the fix.
Basically, you need to change the nsswitch.conf
file from 'compat' to 'nis files' for the relevant
lines, afairc.
Hope that helps,
--
Mark Kent
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