Nisplus problem diskless Suse8.1

[Henrik Ridder]

Citerar Doug Staub <rstaub at arrow.com>:

> Henrik,
> 
> As the user on the diskless clients, what is the output of 
> "nisdefaults"?  If the user is not authenticated, there might be an 

Hmm true if I do a "nisdefaults" as a user I get "not authenticated"

> issue with the credentials.  I have not worked with diskless clients 
> before, but I had an issue with credentials when trying to change the 
> user's password.   I ended up haveing to reset the user's password as 
> root user on the NIS+ master and then jump through a few more hoops.
> 
Let me check that closer and get back to you.

> Let me know if you want to try rebuilding the creds for  test user and I 
> might be able to help!
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug
> 
Thanks,
Henrik
> Henrik Ridder wrote:
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >We have a system with Solaris 2.6 nisplus server and a SuSE8.1 server that
> is a 
> >nisplus client.
> >Everything works perfectly.
> >Now I have a couple of diskless linux workstations that boots from SuSE
> server 
> >and here nisplus dosen't work perfectly.
> >
> >The diskless workstations boots ok. A user can login and auto.home is
> working 
> >to.
> >The home-dir is on the Solaris server.
> >As root on the diskless workstations niscat passwd.org_dir works. I'll get
> back 
> >the crypted password, but as the user I'll get back *NP*.
> >
> >And if I as a user do "keylogin" I'll get back 
> >"Could not set unix.xxxx at xxx.xxx.xx's secret key
> >Maybe the keyserver is down?"
> >
> >But I know that isn't because as root it works!
> >
> >And on the SuSE server it works for both user and root.
> >And if I connect a linux client with harddrive in and setup nisplus it also
> 
> >works.
> >
> >If anybody as tips I'll should be a very happy man. Because i'm banging my
> head 
> >against the keyboard right now.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >/Henrik
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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