On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 10:35:58AM -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote: > Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > >Any system on which you intend to run ypcat, ypmatch, or any of the NIS > >client commands should run ypbind, whether it's talking to a more > >traditional NIS server or an IPA server with its NIS service enabled. > > I run ypcat w/o ypbind all the time for testing. You just need to > specify the server and domain on the command-line: > > $ ypcat -h `hostname` -d example.com passwd
I left that tidbit out, but yeah, I often use it that way as well when troubleshooting. On that topic, 'rpcinfo -p' is handy for checking that the NIS server is properly registered with its local port mapper (as a "ypserv" server), which is necessary for ypbind to find it. Cheers, Nalin _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
