Questions tagged [nis]
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Replacement for NIS/YP
The company that I am working for is embarking on replacing the current locally developed NIS/YP structure with LDAP.
We already have AD in house for the Windows stuff and would like to consider using an AD system. The AD people are quite…
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NIS failing to bind
I have a bunch of machines which authenticate via NIS to a central server. I just bought a new CentOS 6.2 client machine, and it can't authenticate.
The following is a list of the classics people get wrong/forget when dealing with NIS:
1) The…
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do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
faulters:
Despite much troubleshooting in my NIS/YP setup, rebooting systems, restarting & debugging ypbind, putting nscd to run, a group of newly purchased systems regularly spam my email with:
do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
do_ypcall:…
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How do I replace an NIS master server?
I need to take down my current NIS master server because it is running on RHEL 4 which is too old for the auditors to approve now.
I think I need to copy some files off the master over to a slave server and run make?
I know there are files listed in…
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Login using Active Directory in Linux using Kerberos 5
I have a problem with setting up auth for users on Linux (Fedora Core 15 to be exact) using Active Directory on Windows 2008 Server with installed support for UNIX systems. I've successfully setup Kerberos, tested using kinit -p and klist to…
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OSX 10.6 integration into NIS/netgroup/automount infrastructure
I have an existing infrastructure where accounts are maintained under NIS (yp) with no local unix accounts. Also, all the standard maps including hosts, mail aliases, netgroups, etc...are maintained in this form. Extensive use of the UNIX/Linux…
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Enable NIS extensions (rfc2307) on Samba 4 AD after installation
I'm testing out our samba 4 migration process and when the initial forest/domain was created, it was created without using --use-rfc2307:
sudo samba-tool domain provision \
--domain netdirect \
--realm=ad.netdirect.ca \
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NIS client doesn't see group names
I have added a user to libvirt (id = 504) group on NIS server. On the client when I do group , I get groups: cannot find name for group ID 504 What should I do to get my clients to display group names correctly ?
There are no id…
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How can I change passwords on a Linux NIS master?
This seems like it should be simple, but if it is, I must be missing something. I have a Linux NIS master from which I would like to be able to change users' passwords (in cases of forgotten passwords and similar things), but I can't.
Some details:…
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How can I tell which clients are connecting to a NIS/ypserv master server?
I don't have much experience working with NIS at all, as I came from an LDAP environment. I have a project to move a bunch of clients within a NIS domain to point at a new NIS master server. There's no config management in place, and no real…
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Common user accounts between linux machines
I have a base system with a few (currently two) VMs on top of it, all running Ubuntu Server. I have to keep adding my user account on each system when I bring a new one up, as well as giving it sudo access, etc. and there are things in the way such…
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How do I create NIS groups with large userlists
I am trying to create a NIS group with a member list that exceeds 1024 characters. Now I can't do that because the database that NIS uses restricts the value part of the key/value pair to 1024 characters.
The internet suggests that I should be able…
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Disable nis login for a particular user on a particular machine
We have a nis server and a nis client in a domain. As part of the in-charge of a subdomain, I want to enable nis logins for only some users on a particular machine, and want to disable the rest of the users. I DO NOT have administrative access to…
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NIS: which mechanism hides shadow.byname for unpriviledged users?
On some Linux box (SLES 11.1) which is a NIS client I can do as root:
ypcat shadow.byname
and get output, i.e. some lines with the encrypted passwords, amongst other information.
On the same Linux box, if I run the same command as unpriviledged…
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Delaying NIS & NFS startup till after network interface is fully ready on Fedora 17
I've recently set up a fedora 17 server for our network, and I've been having trouble getting the NIS service to work on startup. Here's some logs from the system:
Aug 21 12:57:12 cairnwell ypbind-pre-setdomain[718]: Setting NIS domain:…
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