Re: [Hampshire] NIS Client Curiosities
I finally managed to sort this out. So for future reference, I'll tell you how. nscd was running. I stopped it and life is good. For those not familiar with nscd it is a Name Service Cache Daemon. From the description on the man page: Nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name service requests. The default configuration file, /etc/nscd.conf, determines the behavior of the cache daemon. See nscd.conf(5). Nscd provides cacheing for accesses of the passwd(5), group(5), and hosts(5) databases through standard libc interfaces, such as getpwnam(3), getpwuid(3), getgrnam(3), getgrgid(3), gethostbyname(3), and others. Hopefully this will help anyone else who is stuck with this problem. Tim B. -- OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter openDynamics - Open-source Vessel Motions Calculation Lead Developer http://openpilot.sourceforge.net http://opendynamics.engineering.selfip.org -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] NIS Client Curiosities
On Mon, May 9, 2011 5:39 pm, Jan Henkins wrote: Hello Tim, This sounds like a PAM issue. Have a look at how things are stacked, since it is very order-sensitive. -- Regards, Jan Henkins I have looked through the /etc/pam.d directory and the files look the same as a working box, so I don't think that's the problem. Has anyone else got any ideas? Tim B. -- OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter openDynamics - Open-source Vessel Motions Calculation Lead Developer http://openpilot.sourceforge.net http://opendynamics.engineering.selfip.org -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] NIS Client Curiosities
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a strange problem... I have a machine which acts as a login node for a downstream network. This machine repeats the NIS server capabilities of the master (upstream) server. It should also provide correct NIS usernames, groups and passwords. Here's the problem: Users can log onto this box with the correct password, but once logged on they cannot use the groups defined in nis. That is to say, groups username returns users when it is meant to return a whole list. The downstream machines are fine, as are some other machines at the same level in the topology (the other machine with this problem is showing the exact same symptoms). The machine affected is running SLES11. Editing users via Yast shows the full group lists. In /etc/nsswitch I have tried group: compat and group: nis files which has made no difference. I have the appropriate lines added to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them. Thanks, Tim B. -- OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter openDynamics - Open-source Vessel Motions Calculation Lead Developer http://openpilot.sourceforge.net http://opendynamics.engineering.selfip.org -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] NIS Client Curiosities
Hello Tim, This sounds like a PAM issue. Have a look at how things are stacked, since it is very order-sensitive. -- Regards, Jan Henkins Tim Brocklehurst t...@engineering.selfip.org wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I have a strange problem... I have a machine which acts as a login node for a downstream network. This machine repeats the NIS server capabilities of the master (upstream) server. It should also provide correct NIS usernames, groups and passwords. Here's the problem: Users can log onto this box with the correct password, but once logged on they cannot use the groups defined in nis. That is to say, groups username returns users when it is meant to return a whole list. The downstream machines are fine, as are some other machines at the same level in the topology (the other machine with this problem is showing the exact same symptoms). The machine affected is running SLES11. Editing users via Yast shows the full group lists. In /etc/nsswitch I have tried group: compat and group: nis files which has made no difference. I have the appropriate lines added to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them. Thanks, Tim B. -- OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter openDynamics - Open-source Vessel Motions Calculation Lead Developer http://openpilot.sourceforge.net http://opendynamics.engineering.selfip.org -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk_ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
