RH EL3.0 Linux NIS+ Client and passwd table

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Hi Doug,

Please make sure nscd is not running...

/etc/init.d/nscd status

chkconfig --level 345 nscd stop

Ivan

Doug Staub wrote:

> All,
>
> I think I am missing something easy on a new Linux RH EL 3.0 client I 
> am installing NIS+ on - I not able to log in as a NIS+ user, however, 
> I am able to view all of the tables.  'keyserv' is running as is 
> 'portmap' and 'keylogin -r' works.  The problem appears to be that 
> this machine is not even trying to check the NIS+ arena for users (I 
> ran a 'keyserv -D' and there is no output when trying to authenticate 
> as a NIS+ user)- my /etc/pam.d/login appears as:
>
> root at mothra pam.d]# more login
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth       required     pam_securetty.so
> auth       required     pam_nologin.so
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so set_secrpc
> account    required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
> password   required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
> session    required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
>
> My /etc/nsswitch.conf appears as:
>
> #
> # An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be
> # sorted with the most-used services at the beginning.
> #
> # The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an
> # entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned
> # up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason
> # (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the
> # next entry.
> #
> # Legal entries are:
> #
> #       nisplus or nis+         Use NIS+ (NIS version 3)
> #       nis or yp               Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP
> #       dns                     Use DNS (Domain Name Service)
> #       files                   Use the local files
> #       db                      Use the local database (.db) files
> #       compat                  Use NIS on compat mode
> #       hesiod                  Use Hesiod for user lookups
> #       [NOTFOUND=return]       Stop searching if not found so far
> #
> # To use db, put the "db" in front of "files" for entries you want to be
> # looked up first in the databases
> #
> # Example:
> #passwd:    db files nisplus nis
> #shadow:    db files nisplus nis
> #group:     db files nisplus nis
> passwd:     files nisplus
> shadow:     files nisplus
> group:      files nisplus
> #hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
> hosts:      files nisplus dns
> # Example - obey only what nisplus tells us...
> #services:   nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
> #networks:   nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
> #protocols:  nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
> #rpc:        nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
> #ethers:     nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
> #netmasks:   nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
> bootparams: files
> ethers:     files
> netmasks:   files
> networks:   files
> protocols:  files
> rpc:        files
> services:   files
> netgroup:   files
> publickey:  nisplus
> automount:  files
> aliases:    files
>
> To make things worse, I have another client in a different NIS+ domain 
> running the same OS and after hours of comparing files, cannot find 
> any differences - please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Doug


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