I investigated the issue once more. Unfortunately, our setup has changed, so the master NIS server is no longer on a CentOS system, but rather Ubuntu JeOS (2.6.22-14-virtual).
The good news is that the problem has gone away. The bad news is that I can't say why. I created a password entry: ans:xxx:1221:1221:æ ø å é:/u/ans:/bin/bash on the NIS master, and the user ans can now log in on both gutsy and hardy machines. Before, the user could not log in, and was silently rejected. On hardy, the funny characters in the name show up correctly in applications (e.g. "finger ans"), but in a gutsy machine, they did not, each character is displayed as two, indicating some kind of unicode problem. I did not investigate this further. -- NIS cannot handle non-ascii characters in gecos field https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162183 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
