RH EL3.0 Linux NIS+ Client and passwd table

[Doug Staub]

Scott,

We are running on AMD64 bit and this appears to have fixed my problem. 
Definitely good to know your experience on the 32 bit platform - thank you.

Ivan - thanks for the tip!

Regards,
Doug

secroft at micron.com wrote:
> I'd have to disagree with this on the 32 bit version of RHEL. On the 64bit version, yes, it solves the issues, but on 32bit we're running it and if we don't NIS+ goes out to lunch quite a bit.
> 
> Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-nisplus-bounces+secroft=micron.com at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-nisplus-bounces+secroft=micron.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of IC Starlink software manager
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 10:22 AM
> To: rstaub at arrow.com
> Cc: linux-nisplus at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: RH EL3.0 Linux NIS+ Client and passwd table
> 
> 
> 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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