Hi, Paolo Pedaletti wrote:
> Ciao, > I have "inherit" 20 pc client + 1 server RH 6.2 under NIS+. One question first: You have a NIS+ server running Redhat? I wasn't aware, that there is actually a NIS+ server available for Linux. Anyway. > Slowly, I want to switch to Debian 2.2, starting from the client. Good idea. :) > I have "upgraded" :-) 2 client to 2.2, but I can't login as nis user (that > exist on nis server) > The problem is that under 2.2 there is no nis+, but only nis. > Are they compatible? Well, I think that NIS+ has a NIS compatibility mode, but at least on SUN machines it has to be activated explictly. > (maybe configuring the server to act as nis and not as nis+ ?) This would be easy, but you lose the security that NIS+ gives you. Not a good idea. > (and if yes, it's only a matter of s/nisplus/nis/g ?) No, unfortunately not. For NIS+ client installation, see http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/nisplus/other.html. Then you have to add credential information for the NIS+ clients (both hosts and users) on the server. I don't know the instructions in detail, but it goes something like this (on the server): 1) Edit the /etc/passwd and add new user 2) You will need to know the user password so put the output of `mkpasswd geheim` into /etc/passwd. 3) Edit /etc/shadow 4) cd to /var/nisplus (I think) 5) Make Now you should have an entry for the user in the NIS+ passwd database. See `niscat passwd.org_dir | grep user` for confirmation. Now you have to add a credential for the host (the root user of the machine) and the user himself. Try `nisaddcred LOCAL` and then `nisaddcred DES` for the user, and then `niscat cred.org_dir for confirmation. This is probably incomplete, but I don't have any more information now at hand. HTH, Viktor > a) /home on client is mounted via NFS from server nis > b) if I do ls -l /home, I can see login name and groups of each home dir... > c) ypcat passwd works > d) login user doesn't works -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e>+++ h-- r- !y+
