Re: NIS problems
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Bao C. Ha wrote: I have the plus entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the client, not in the master. /etc/passwd +:* ^-- This is your problem. You must remove the asterisk, since it will overwrite the pw_passwd entry from NIS (this is unlike SunOS). A single + ist enough. Greetings, Swen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: adduser and NIS
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: It's unlikely this will be fixed. I've noticed that something has to be a pretty serious bug to be put in 1.3 now. I think (hope) that libc6 uses the more modern /etc/nsswitch.conf rather than putting weird entries into /etc/passwd, group, etc. to dictate the use of NIS, DNS, etc. Looking forward to Hamm and libc6, You still might want to have these weird entries in /etc/passwd for supporting netgroups, for example. The [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], -user, +user entries in /etc/passwd ar IMHO much more flexible than to have only the choice between all or nothing. And you can have this (I assume) with libc6, too, just use passwd: compat group: compat in /etc/nsswitch.conf. At least this does work with the NYS-enable libc. Greetings, Swen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Any AMD users ? troubles with direct mount
On 15 Jul 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Oliver Landsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any hints or maps for me ? Here are my maps: amd.home -cache:=inc /cad amd.direct -type:=direct [...] Just insert a -- before $AMDARGS in /etc/init.d/amd, the line should look remotely like this one: eval start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/amd \ -- -l $LOGFILE -a $AUTODIR -r -- $AMDARGS ^ | +-here This works for me (and in case you might want to use NIS maps, you might want to change the ypcat $NISMAP to ypcat -k $NISMAP). Hope this helps. --Swen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ypbind problem
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sami Laine wrote: I have a small problem with ypbind. Master NIS server is running at 192.168.1.100 (network 192.168.96/255.255.255.224) and client machine is at 192.168.1.37 (network 192.168.1.32/255.255.255.224). When I start ypbind it tries to find out master server by broadcasts, even if I specify domain and server with 'ypbind -S office,192.168.1.100'. I have also placed following info into /etc/yp.conf: domain office nisserver 192.168.1.100 But I assume /etc/yp.conf doesn't do anything because Debian 1.3.0 doesn't have NIS support compiled into C-library. I found syntax of /etc/nsswitch.conf a bit confusing too, but I assume following entries enable NIS lookups for passwd and group: passwd: files db group:files db I other systems I've seen 'db' replaced with 'nis', but this should do same thing? Maybe someone has solved my problem and has been able to use NIS server from another subnetwork? You need a different ypbind. Debian comes with the ported BSD ypbind, which does not support binding to servers in another subnet. I currently have no debian package of my ypbind (I'm planning on doing this, but lack the time at the moment), but you should be able to compile and install it without problems (you find it on ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/linux/local/yp/ypbind-3.2.tar.gz). This version is much more stable than older versions, perhaps it can be included into the standard Debian NIS package. Before you make install, you might want to dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert /usr/sbin/ypbind.bsd /usr/sbin/ypbind dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert /usr/man/man8/ypbind.bsd.8.gz /usr/man/man8/ypbind.8.gz Hope this helps. --Swen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS documentation wrong?
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: Hi. It the nis documentation it says I can + and - users in the passwd file (I take it that it should be on the fly and it used to work with debian 0.93 in this case...) - however I can't seem to do this. The following two lines are in my /etc/passwd file: +::/bin/bash -karl [...] You must reverse the lines. The pw routines will stop when a name is found, so -karl is useless when there is a + preceding it. Greetings, Swen
Re: Weird NFS/automounter problem.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Stan Brown wrote: I have set my Debian Linux box up with the sutmounter so that I can access all the machines on my local network. After I boot the machine, all this works fine. I can change directory to /net(name_of_machine) and see everything. But over night something weird happens. First I get the folowing error message: NFS server [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/net not responding, still trying. [...] This problem should be fixed with amd_upl102-4.deb. It is a bug in amd. amd will die, when trying a readdir in /net (probably find from cron.daily in your case). Hope this helps. - --Swen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMocefUTyQF8U8wFLAQFiKwP9HsR2zCGEdNfnHAajKH3MVjibi8IrQrMV GhtQP1lyv8c5Fh0+QnFEhs5iAxNoUGRMzHh+UMpoeJioogm+kVgfn1nq/3sv1pm8 1clPbW1uttddfj6bV/K5rdzsvVMkwLfOYC3X/VodwKIB7NV75mYPRKaCOIU6xbHW kUNd1ICzO4w= =LwEj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: [...] ypbind checks that the NIS server is still there every minute (the period in the old version. The new man page just says periodically). The man page doesn't show an option to override this, so I may just put one in myself. Do you see any problem with this? No, there should be no problem. I've just been too lazy to add it myself. Greetings, Swen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does Linux NIS needs plus-entries?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: I seem to faintly remember someone saying on this list that Linux NIS doesn't need plus-entries in /etc/passwd and friends... Is that really true? Because the latest nis package still says: No, this is wrong. It was a bug in old versions of libc (4.5.x, I think). This has been fixed, and now you need the entries (unless you have a NYS enabled libc and use /etc/nsswitch.conf). Greetings, Swen -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBMmz8V0TyQF8U8wFLAQHIlQP9FkGYJCwLk0CqttBVKzIDunaKze47u4un 2oiYu1nvtJ+4qrw6u8RReMjX2i/+bHicHN3O37sQMVIz15u7dw3XkCsCIolq69IK HAW4H8v6dghII00iWZ4tTB8D78IqoT+Dp5r566dWRRFpYVrJxi2tQfY7yrybOv0m aJ8MPV3cL+4= =hu0v -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: argh, NIS!
On 26 Sep 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Nope, that doesn't work. I replaced ypbind-2.99 with a hacked version of the BSD ypbind. The Linux ypbind-2.99 tends to die when it wants to switch servers, which is a problem if you have more then one NIS server and the one you're currently listening goes down. I've just released ypbind-3.0, and I'd be interested in bugreports of this version. There were some small quirks in 2.99beta, but it should not have died... Greetings, Swen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
