On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 10:31:09AM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> I found out that, though this works for users listed in /etc/passwd, it
> does not for users who have a remote NIS account.
>
> That problem already occurred a longer time ago, but in the meanwhile,
> I had solved (by following su
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote:
>
> Anywhere this info could be added for the other people who will undoubtedly
> run into this when Squeeze goes stable?
I assume that you mean in the release notes.
I've emailed debian-...@lists.debian.org because I couldn't find a
more spec
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote:
> On 01/08/2011 08:25 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in
>>> the
>>> process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a S
On 01/08/2011 08:25 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote:
I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in the
process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a Solaris 10 (x86) box
through autofs (5.0.4-3.2 amd64). They all do their aut
On 01/08/2011 08:25 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote:
I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in the
process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a Solaris 10 (x86) box
through autofs (5.0.4-3.2 amd64). They all do their aut
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote:
>
> I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in the
> process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a Solaris 10 (x86) box
> through autofs (5.0.4-3.2 amd64). They all do their authentication through
> NIS (which
hi,
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On 27.03.2010 08:17, Joseph Lenox wrote:
> On 3/25/2010 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>
>> You might try using at_console and consolekit.
>>
>>
>
> I tried installing policykit and using that, got identical errors as
> without (Dbus access error).
How exactly do you users login and start th
On 3/25/2010 6:18 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 25.03.2010 23:38, schrieb Joseph Lenox:
I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugdev
group, but I'm still getting a permissions error from DBus. Adding the exact
user to the plugdev group on the local machine worked as f
On Thursday 25 March 2010 18:38:36 Joseph Lenox wrote:
> I'm running lenny (5.0.4); and trying to get USB flash drive mounting in a
> way that doesn't involve hand-adding every user to the plugdev group (we're
> running NIS).
>
> I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugde
Am 25.03.2010 23:38, schrieb Joseph Lenox:
>
> I tried the pam_group approach, and id says the user is in the plugdev
> group, but I'm still getting a permissions error from DBus. Adding the exact
> user to the plugdev group on the local machine worked as far as the mounter.
>
http://bugs.debian
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
PS: You know that NIS is an unsecure protocol only to be used if you are
absolutly convinced you are tightly controlling all the clients that can
attach to the network, do you?
There are still good reasons to run NIS, and it can be done securely
(e
Hi, raman:
On Friday 14 August 2009 06:15:03 raman narasimhan wrote:
> We have a networks lab at our college that has a fully configured windows
> network. Now we are completely changing to linux. All systems in the lab
> have been installed with Debian/Ubuntu. We have configured NIS server in
> o
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, raman narasimhan wrote:
>
> So what could be the problem?? We have no problems in logging into Debian
> Server from Debian clients.
>
Have you looked at the firewall on the ubuntu servers?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFirewall
--
8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Prefere
On 2009-08-13 23:15, raman narasimhan wrote:
We have a networks lab at our college that has a fully configured
windows network. Now we are completely changing to linux. All systems in
the lab have been installed with Debian/Ubuntu. We have configured NIS
server in one of the Debian machines. An
andy,
thanks for the response. I may try this.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Mag Gam wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We are using NIS for our university's mechanical/computer/civil
> engineering lab. We have near 4000 clients and 1 NIS server. We have 4
> global NIS servers, which is used thru out t
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, BERGY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'nis
user and group id conflicts with user and group id for libuuid on nis
client':
>I added a nis user 'sushmita' on the server. The server is running
>cent os. She can login on the server (nataraj)
>uid=532(sushmita) gid=534(su
Arvind Marathe wrote:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stephane Durieux wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am encountering a problem with a nis server.
> Local root on client can do su user without giving the password
> of the user.
>
> root squashi
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephane Durieux wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I am encountering a problem with a nis server.
> > Local root on client can do su user without giving the password
> > of the user.
> >
> > root squashing is ena
Stephane Durieux wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am encountering a problem with a nis server.
> Local root on client can do su user without giving the password
> of the user.
>
> root squashing is enabled.
>
> What can I do
I do not know if NIS changes something, but the default behavior is that
root c
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:10:41PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:38:42AM -0700, Brad Brock wrote:
> > > Hi, I want to activate NIS in my network. I've
> > > installed NIS pakcage on my Debian. Where can I find
> > > the configuration example and explanation? Th
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:38:42AM -0700, Brad Brock wrote:
> > Hi, I want to activate NIS in my network. I've
> > installed NIS pakcage on my Debian. Where can I find
> > the configuration example and explanation? This is my
> > first time using NIS. Thanks.
On 17.10.06 12:21, Roberto C. Sanche
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:38:42AM -0700, Brad Brock wrote:
> Hi, I want to activate NIS in my network. I've
> installed NIS pakcage on my Debian. Where can I find
> the configuration example and explanation? This is my
> first time using NIS. Thanks.
>
Please don't. Use LDAP instead. NIS should
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:38:42 -0700 (PDT), Brad Brock wrote
> Hi, I want to activate NIS in my network. I've
> installed NIS pakcage on my Debian. Where can I find
> the configuration example and explanation? This is my
> first time using NIS. Thanks.
>
/usr/share/doc/nis
has a how-to for starting
Hendrika,
Not sure what you might have already tried but one place to check is 3
files in the /etc/ directory: yp.conf, yp.serv.conf and ypserv.securenets.
Your server will need to allow access from the client box, and know what
maps to serve. The client box will need to know the hostname or IP a
Helo Hendrika,
After user creation, you have execute "make -C /var/yp".
Regards,
Eriberto
Hendrika Joubert escreveu:
Hi there,
I am running two debian servers and are having problems with nis
updating to my mail server. The one server is running all my data and
logins, etc and the other one is ru
On 5 Sep 2004 23:28:59 -0700, Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> high,
> I tried today to install a NIS Server on a PC with debian woody, but
> in vain.
>
> The way was as following:
> -> apt-get install NIS (portmap was automatically installed too)
> -> during installation I was asked for NIS-D
Alexis Huxley wrote:
'I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$'.
My yp.conf and nsswitch.conf are the same like on the other
Suse-NIS-Clients.
In /etc/passwd the last line is '+::'.
In /etc/shadow '+' and in /etc/group '+:::'.
These ancient style '+' entries are not needed.
Configure ac
> I've got a problem accessing a NIS-Server (running on Suse) with a
> NIS-Client (Debian testing).
> After doing a 'su - user' or simply logging in as user I get a
> 'I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$'.
>
> My yp.conf and nsswitch.conf are the same like on the other
> Suse-NIS-Clients.
> In /etc/pa
See /etc/nsswitch.conf? The order of the options defines the order in
which they're used.
>> Thanks. I do very much wish to do this. So, I've altered my
/etc/nsswitch.conf to look like:
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `gl
Incoming from Roland Dunn:
>
> One thing though - the root password for my new (DEBIAN) server is the
> local root password - how can I tell the new server to take its' root
> pwd from NIS rather than use the local password?
See /etc/nsswitch.conf? The order of the options defines the order in
w
' root
pwd from NIS rather than use the local password?
Thanks, Roland.
-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexis Huxley
Sent: 19 March 2004 10:51
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NIS Client Problem
> I'm trying to join a Debian(Woody) mac
> I'm trying to join a Debian(Woody) machine to a NIS network.
Did you look at /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz ? Did you
follow it ? :-) Are you trying to add it as a client or a slave server?
What OS is the NIS server?
> I'm getting the "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound" error on start
Anyone any pointers as to where to start looking on this one?
-Original Message-
From: Roland Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 March 2004 17:34
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NIS Client Problem
I'm trying to join a Debian(Woody) machine to a NIS network.
I'm getting the "YPBINDPR
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Emil Hägerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> nis 3.10-3 fixed the Problem while booting. If you are using
>> 3.10.-(1|2) you have to set
>
>> # Are we a NIS client (i.e. start ypbind?)
>> NISCLIENT=false
>
>> in /etc/default/nis. This depends on a mistake in the in
> nis 3.10-3 fixed the Problem while booting. If you are using
> 3.10.-(1|2) you have to set
> # Are we a NIS client (i.e. start ypbind?)
> NISCLIENT=false
> in /etc/default/nis. This depends on a mistake in the initscript.
My nis version is 3.10-2.
I added 'NISCLIENT=false' on the client. But
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 the mental interface of
=?iso-8859-1?B?RW1pbCBI5Gdlcmx1bmQ= ?= told:
> > There was bug 221569 (nis: ypbind isn't started on boot), but it was
> > closed on December 16. Perhaps it hasn't been completely fixed?
>
> Thanks for quick answers!
>
> I have just now perfomed the fo
> There was bug 221569 (nis: ypbind isn't started on boot), but it was
> closed on December 16. Perhaps it hasn't been completely fixed?
Thanks for quick answers!
I have just now perfomed the following on my sarge
server and one client:
- apg-get update
- apt-get dist-upgrade
- reboot
The probl
On 2004-01-01 14:21:19 +0100, =?iso-8859-1?B?RW1pbCBI5Gdlcmx1bmQ= ?= wrote:
> This is my problem:
> 'ypbind' (NIS) is not started at startup.
There was bug 221569 (nis: ypbind isn't started on boot), but it was
closed on December 16. Perhaps it hasn't been completely fixed?
--
Vincent Lefèvre <[
Neal Lippman wrote:
I use nis on my LAN for storing passwd, group, hosts, services, etc,
information.
I need to update the hosts file with new ip addresses. Is there an
command or easy way to propagate updated host information to the NIS
database, or do I just use ypinit and rebuild the whoe databa
00 (CLT)
> From: Xavier Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Rishikesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: NIS problem
>
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Rishikesh wrote:
>
> >
> > I am trying to make NIS work on my home network. I have follo
rade wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:51:01 -0400 (CLT)
> > From: Xavier Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Rishikesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: NIS problem
> >
> > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Rishikes
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Rishikesh wrote:
>
> I am trying to make NIS work on my home network. I have followed
> the HOWTO below to the word.
> http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-howto/nis.html I keep getting
> error message
>
> YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound
>
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Z F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a question regarding NIS+ client installation.
>
>I am doing it for the first time and I think I followed all procedures
>from the NIS-HOWTO correctly.
>
>I am running unstable.
>
>The problem is that it worked, but after reboo
[20030824] Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> See http://snapshot.debian.net/.
I didn't know the existance of that site. Thanks.
> > Any libc6 devs reading the list ? :)
>
> They're painfully aware of the problem.
I know that, however I can't fully use my box at work & it
makes me mad :
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 03:19:26AM +0300, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote:
> [20030823] Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The current libc6 is said to have broken NIS. Maybe you can locate an
> > older version of the package and install it.
>
> I tried that too (I can even send libc6-2.3.1-
[20030823] Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The current libc6 is said to have broken NIS. Maybe you can locate an
> older version of the package and install it.
I tried that too (I can even send libc6-2.3.1-17 to whoever wants
it), however lots of other packages on my system were upd
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:40:11 +0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a debian potato nis server. I have some debian woody desktops
> (nis clients) configured. When I updated these machines do sid, the nis
> stopped to work! :( Only when I do su
[20030822] Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I updated these machines do sid, the nis stopped to work! :(
> Only when I do su - from root account, it "works":
The latest libc6 version (2.3.2-1 & 2.3.2-2) b0rked nis & the
bug is still unresolved.
C
Hi!
On Fri Aug 22, 2003 at 06:32:32PM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a debian potato nis server. I have some debian woody desktops (nis
> clients) configured.
> When I updated these machines do sid, the nis stopped to work! :(
> Only w
Hi,
First of all thank you for replying! This was the 3rd post of the
same mail with a different subject! ;P
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:34:12 -0400
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you, in fact, want to migrate your network to using Kerberos?
> It's a moderate amount of infrastructure
Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been trying for some time to change from NIS to LDAP. ... I
> needed to install and configure SASL so that I had encryption for
> the all process. At that time I had to choose some libsasl modules,
> so I installed gssapi-mit and digestmd5-des.
Do you,
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:44:05PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote:
> Zeus/Phoenix
>
> NIS: should have entries in nsswitch.conf to get their uid/gid info from
> Hydra
> NFS: it's so easy... too bad it's so insecure...
> Samba: should be set to "security=server" and have "password server =
> H
Thanks Todd - I really appreaciate the work you've put in ;-)
On (08/06/03 21:44), Todd Pytel wrote:
> OK, here's what I think should work. Bear in mind that
> 1) This is a pretty ugly business, and usually takes a lot of
> testing to iron out. The following should give a rough outline to star
Clive,
OK, here's what I think should work. Bear in mind that
1) This is a pretty ugly business, and usually takes a lot of
testing to iron out. The following should give a rough outline to start
with.
2) This suggestion is not really suitable for a professional
installation - it's not particul
On (08/06/03 18:29), Todd Pytel wrote:
> You need to be more specific about how things are set up, specifically
> the Samba security level (share, user, domain, etc.). Generally
> speaking, Samba and NIS don't really go together. Samba, in most
> setups (there are many possibilities), authenticat
On (08/06/03 18:36), Todd Pytel wrote:
> What are you showing here? Are "Hydra" and "Hydra_SAMBA_" different
> machines? Why the "-B" with no address? nmblookup will broadcast by
> default. I think what you see below is the system trying to resolve
> Hydra_SAMBA_ into an IP address as the argume
What are you showing here? Are "Hydra" and "Hydra_SAMBA_" different
machines? Why the "-B" with no address? nmblookup will broadcast by
default. I think what you see below is the system trying to resolve
Hydra_SAMBA_ into an IP address as the argument to "-B", i.e. you're not
specifying a lookup
Clive,
You need to be more specific about how things are set up, specifically
the Samba security level (share, user, domain, etc.). Generally
speaking, Samba and NIS don't really go together. Samba, in most
setups (there are many possibilities), authenticates its users against
the smbpasswd file
On (08/06/03 22:43), Clive Menzies wrote:
> I've been round in several circles in the last 24 hours without success.
> Looking through the docs and googling provided numerous ideas as to the
> source of the problem but various fixes failed to sort this particular
> problem:
>
> I've recently set-u
Ian Melnick said:
> Anyway, I was wondering what that "thing" was, so that I could configure
> the slave server the same way so that reconfiguration of the clients
> wasn't necessary, and they'd auto-discover the slave when the master
> wasn't available.
probably broadcast mode:
-broadcas
Thanks Mike. It was an iptables problem.
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Don Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I should have been more clear about rpcinfo ---
> >rpcinfo -p client from the client fails
>
> Fails how?
>
> >rpcinfo -p cli
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Don Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I should have been more clear about rpcinfo ---
>rpcinfo -p client from the client fails
Fails how?
>rpcinfo -p client from the server works but shows only portmapper and
>nlockmgr
>
>rpcinfo -p server from the client works
I should have been more clear about rpcinfo ---
rpcinfo -p client from the client fails
rpcinfo -p client from the server works but shows only portmapper and
nlockmgr
rpcinfo -p server from the client works
rpcinfo -p server from the server works
Again, the error is when I try to run ypbind on t
Don Hayward said:
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Yes, portmap is running -- at least ps shows it.
> rpcinfo -p hangs and returns no output although lsof -i lists several RPC
> ports in use and I have some nfs volumes mounted.
something is wrong with portmapper then, or theres a firewall
preventin
Thanks for the response.
Yes, portmap is running -- at least ps shows it.
rpcinfo -p hangs and returns no output although lsof -i lists several
RPC ports in use and I have some nfs volumes mounted.
the network config is:
CONFIG_PACKET=y
# CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is n
Don Hayward said:
> I'm tryin to get an NIS client running on a woody system modified for
> freeswan. When starting ypbind, I get this error message:
>
> Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Operation not
> permitted Unable to register (YPBINDPROG, YPBINDVERS, udp).
>
> Where sho
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 06:38:34PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote:
> It is the case that ypbind must be running on any NIS client system
> regardless of whether it is using libc6 or not?
Yes, you must run ypbind.
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, nate wrote:
> D. J. Bolderman said:
> > Hi Guys,
> > Now, when I start NIS, I see that ypbind tries to bind to eth0, but I
> > want it to bind to eth1.
> I believe all RPC services bind to 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces), and there
> is no way to change this, from what I've read i
D. J. Bolderman said:
> Hi Guys,
> Now, when I start NIS, I see that ypbind tries to bind to eth0, but I
> want it to bind to eth1.
I believe all RPC services bind to 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces), and there
is no way to change this, from what I've read it would require a ton of
code to be changed. I
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:13:19PM +0200, chj wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:35:22PM +0200, Robert Rakowicz wrote:
> > Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I am trying to set up NIS on my Debian Woody SPARC systems.
> > >
> > > Following nis.debian.howto using
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:35:22PM +0200, Robert Rakowicz wrote:
> Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> > I am trying to set up NIS on my Debian Woody SPARC systems.
> >
> > Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up
> > with this problem. I cannot login on a
Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi,
> I am trying to set up NIS on my Debian Woody SPARC systems.
>
> Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up
> with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on
> a NIS client host.
>
> If I login as root on the NIS cli
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:22:36PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote:
...
> > Check /etc/pam.d/su and /etc/pam.d/login etc
>
> Will do that then.
>
> > Perhaps you have only pam_pwdb loaded; I don't think it uses
> > getpwnam() but rather reads /etc/passwd directly, which
> > isn't going to work. Yo
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:22:36PM +0200, Christian J?nsson wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:04:37AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up
> > >wit
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:04:37AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up
> >with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on
> >a NIS client host
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up
>with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on
>a NIS client host.
>
>If I login as root on the NIS client host, and try su - joe
>(assuming joe is
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm putting my desktop on the work network and we are currently using
> NIS+, soon to be LDAP (possibly). At any rate, I need to do some
> testing on the NIS+ environment and am looking for NIS+ packages. Do
> they exist? /var/lib/dpkg/available
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 05:06:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anybody have any good links where i could learn how to
> setup NIS on a potato box? Something that covers the downloading
> of the packages with APT, then the configuring of the yp files, etc...
Step 1:
apt-get install ni
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just wondering if anyone knows the answer to this (probably) stupid question:
Read /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz
Mike.
--
Computers are useless, they only give answers. --Pablo Picasso
Could be a couple things...the /etc/passwd file on the client machine needs
"+::" put in it in order to recognize the NIS server accounts. Also, I
seem to recall that only uids > 1000 are allowed by default when using NIS,
in Debian, but it's been a while and I can't test this anymore. I
> nate wrote:
> [snip]
>> /etc/passwd
>> (after all the other entries)
>> +::0:0:::/dev/null
>>
>> /etc/group
>> (after all the other entries)
>> +:::
>
> What does this do? Is this a cryptic reference to nis?
last time i read the NIS docs, it told the system to
send a query to the NIS server if
nate wrote:
[snip]
> /etc/passwd
> (after all the other entries)
> +::0:0:::/dev/null
>
> /etc/group
> (after all the other entries)
> +:::
What does this do? Is this a cryptic reference to nis?
Tom
--
Tom Cook
"I do not believe, you know, that the art and practice of
sitting on the fence is
> Just wondering if anyone knows the answer to this (probably) stupid
> question:
>
> I have two boxes, one is set up as a NIS server (ypserv running)
> the other as a NIS client (ypbind finds the server OK). I have
> users home directories mounted, I believe with the correct
> permissions. Shad
For the client it is best to setup it up with
passwd: files nis
group: files nis
shadow: files nis
this should work fine on the client side, the server side looks good.
--bash
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Tom Cook wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone knows the answer to this (pro
According to Brent Kearney:
> Thanks to your reply though, I realized I forgot to take the +::
> entries out of /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Now that I've done
> so, ldap is working for authentication, and I don't need NIS :).
OK.
> However, as far as I can tell, NIS is indeed broken in this
>
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:44:49PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:09:03AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:09:03AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I'm running the 'woody' distro on a PC with Linux 2.4.12-ac6. I
>>
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:09:03AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm running the 'woody' distro on a PC with Linux 2.4.12-ac6. I
> >installed the 'nis' debian package, and followed the nis.debian.howto
> >that
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running the 'woody' distro on a PC with Linux 2.4.12-ac6. I
>installed the 'nis' debian package, and followed the nis.debian.howto
>that comes with that package. The setup went smoothly, and ypbind was
>able to conta
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
francisco m neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>» Miquel van Smoorenburg disse isso e eu digo aquilo:
>
>> >I'm willing to give permission to users to use the sound
>> > hardware on
>> >the local machines. However, due to the fact that they are registered
» Miquel van Smoorenburg disse isso e eu digo aquilo:
> > I'm willing to give permission to users to use the sound
> > hardware on
> >the local machines. However, due to the fact that they are registered
> >users only in the server,
>
> What do you mean with that sentence?
T
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
francisco m neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm implementing a NIS at work and some issues about device
>permissions ocurred to me.
> I'm willing to give permission to users to use the sound
> hardware on
>the local machines. However,
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> According to Dariush Forouher:
> > On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > Yes, but these messages have nothing to do with my problem. They disappear,
> > if I sont use nfs.
> Huh?
:-) If I disable NFS, the messages won't appear.
According to Dariush Forouher:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > The above messages would be generated if networking was shutdown
> > while there were still active NFS mounts.. are you doing NFS?
> Yes, but these messages have nothing to do with my problem. They disappear,
>
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> The above messages would be generated if networking was shutdown
> while there were still active NFS mounts.. are you doing NFS?
Yes, but these messages have nothing to do with my problem. They disappear,
if I sont use nfs.
> >I have this proble
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dariush Forouher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i have a small problem with nis on woody:
>at shutdown the network-deconfiguration takes about three minutes.
>This occurs only if "nis" is somewhere in /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
>The nis-server (192.168.0.1) runs with potato.
hi ya martin
-- donno if you are looking for answers... or if you are looking for flame
wars ...
-- lets seee ... simple quickie answers...
if you have 20 PCs...you use a mask for 32 machines... 12 of um
will be unused ... that youhave to protect somehow...
make a dummy
* Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.07 17:29:22-0700]:
> The default MAC is on the card in PCs. It can be set in software.
> (Decnet actually depended on being able to do so.)
well, except that when you change the 48bit MAC addy, you are actually
overriding it as any customized MAC addr
* Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.06 20:51:04-0700]:
> if one has a class-C ip# ..and only using 20 ip# out of the range..
> it is easy for someone to plug in an unauthorise machine into
> your network... and sniff anything they like..
>
> - so to prevent that... i disable dhcp ... and use
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