Subject: firestarter breaks nis
Package: firestarter
Version: 1.0.3-1.1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Tags: patch
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Installation of firestarter breaks nis.
We have as configuration a nis server on a private network. Firestarter
is installed and options are set to allow all conections on that private
network.
The nis clients are set up with default debian configuration (+ lines
are added manually to /etc/passwd etc. as described in the documentation
to nis).
nis doesn't work; ie. a running nis still works, but when the system is
restarted nis breaks:
student2:/etc# /etc/init.d/nis restart
Starting NIS services: ypbind [binding to YP server .......... backgrounded]
nis doesn't work and displays:
YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound
Noone can any longer login into the system via nis.
No information whatever is displayed in events or other in firestarter,
that any connection was refused or else.
Stopping the firewall, everything is working again:
student2:~# /etc/init.d/firestarter stop
Stopping the Firestarter firewall:done.
student2:~# /etc/init.d/nis restart
Starting NIS services: ypbind
Unfortunately, it took me some months to locate this problem: whenever
nis is started BEFORE firestarter it continues to work; the problem only
occurs, when nis is started AFTER firestarter (eg. after the next
reboot). Furthermore, no hints are found in firestarter's events list or
in the log-files. I suspect that other services apart from nis might be
affected as well.
WORKAROUND:
add the line
domain name_of_nis-domain server 192.168.0.xxx
to the configuration file /etc/yp.conf and nis is working as expected:
student2:/etc# /etc/init.d/nis restart
Starting NIS services: ypbind
Please, keep improving that otherwise very useful and easy-to-set-up
application!
Johannes
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-lpw
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages firestarter depends on:
ii gksu 1.2.5-3 graphical frontend to su
ii iptables 1.2.11-10 Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables
adminis
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-6 Open-source version of
SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.1-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.1-2 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon -
Shared
ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-6 GNOME configuration
database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-11.1 LGPL Crypto library -
runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.2-2 library to load .glade
files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.2-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented
display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.4-4 The GNOME virtual
file-system libr
ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-13.1 GNU TLS library - runtime
library
ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error
values an
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG
Group's JPEG
ii liborbit2 1:2.12.2-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session
Management
ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3 Manage ASN.1 structures
(runtime)
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol
client li
ii libxml2 2.6.16-7 GNOME XML library
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB)
configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
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