Hello Everyone, I'm a long time freeipa admin, but I've never used its NIS compatibility features. I'm also not well versed with NIS in general. Anyway, I'm testing out migrating NIS users, netgroup, etc. to freeipa and pointing a test NIS client at the freeipa server to get the NIS users, groups, etc. from.
It occurred to me afterwards that the old NIS domain name doesn't match the test freeipa realm I've stood up. Do they both have to match on the freeipa server for NIS to work or can the freeipa realm be "A" and the NIS domain be "B"? If they can be different, how do I change the NIS domain name in freeipa? I tried the following (see below). [root@freeipatest01 ~]# ipa-compat-manage --realm swamp enable [root@freeipatest01 ~]# ipa-nis-manage --realm swamp enable I have no idea what the --realm switch is for. The man page is no help. I took a wild guess that I could specify a different NIS domain name with it. After doing the above, I created a freeipa user. I then tried to lookup the user from another server, which didn't work: [user@another-host ~]$ ypcat -h freeipatest01 -d swamp passwd No such map passwd.byname. Reason: No such map in server's domain NIS look ups do work if I don't specify a different NIS domain: [root@freeipatest01 ~]# ypcat passwd rsandhu:*:22205:100:Ranbir Sandhu:/home/rsandhu:/bin/bash admin:*:494800000:494800000:Administrator:/home/admin:/bin/bash My initial thought was the freeipa realm and the NIS domain name have to match. But, I decided to play around to see what would happen. I'd appreciate it if anyone can clear this up for me. -- Ranbir _______________________________________________ FreeIPA-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
