On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Nikhil Datta wrote:
>
> I've setup a NIS/NFS server for my college intranet, with some linux
> workstations logging in. This is my first experiment with NIS/NFS, and I
> have a couple of problems.
>
> The whole setup is working fine, except :
> 1) If a user changes his password on the client using yppasswd, it gives all
> the right signals (password changed on server etc.), but logging on from the
> node does not work with the new password. However, the password has actually
> been updated on the server ( ie. I can telnet in with the new password).
> restarting ypserv/ypbind etc does not help. So How do I get the server to
> update the maps on the clients ? (I believe yppush is only for slave
> servers).
Are you running nscd? This will cache stuff. I believe caching is done
directly by glibc2.1 as well.
> 4) I want to disable the ability to get a root prompt via 'linux single'.
> (RH 6.1). HOWTO ?
add the word
restricted
in the image section of the lilo.conf . Please rerun lilo -v
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