On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:15:21PM +0100, Jonathan H N Chin wrote: > aurelien wrote: > > - Are the accounts really locked, or the problem only appears with > > ypcat? > > Unfortunately I did not make any notes on the procedure I used. > I think it was just: > > - create an account on nis server with gecos containing non-ascii > - set "passwd: nis" in /etc/nsswitch.conf on nis client > - try to login to nis client on console or via ssh > > However I cannot replicate the login problem anymore. > I wonder if I forgot to change /bin/tcsh (which doesn't exist > on my linux boxes) to /bin/bash when I tested previously.
Do you mean that you are now able to login on those accounts? > > - Does the 'id' command works for the accounts using non-ascii chars? > > I don't know how to login to an account that has non-ascii > characters in it so I can't test that. > Actually you don't need to login on an account, you can just 'id username' to query the different users. > > - Could you please run the ypcat command using: > > 'LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 ypcat' > > (note that you may have to generate the corresponding locale) > > This works. This seems to say that the problem is in the nis package instead of the glibc package. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]