Questions tagged [yp]

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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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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 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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NIS / YP make - mail.aliases Callback timed out

I am trying to add the mail.aliases map to my Makefile on my NIS/YP server. I have added 'mail' to list of maps to build, and ensured that it is pointing to the correct aliases file (/etc/aliases). The problem I am getting is that when I run make,…
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Linux: What could be the reason for random fails in updating passwd.byuid by running yppasswd?

In order to allow NOC users in my company to manage users through NIS I've created the following script: #!/bin/bash # This script will simplicate NIS user management. # You will not be able to change password or delete users peeradmin and root…
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Strange glitch with NIS

Good day. One of the network users with the NIS account (yp and automount) has some problems: after editing network service configufation file (/etc/sysconfig/network) and rebooting (/etc/init.d/network restart) - the client machine was hung and as…
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nobody user/group with NIS/NFS

Software overview Machine A(NIS server): CentOS 6.2 Machine B:(NFS server) CentoS 6.2 Client machines: OpenSuse 12.3, CentOS 6.4 and CentOS 5.6 Introduction and setup Machine A is an NIS server which serves a group of client machines. Home…
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Trying to configure NIS on a centos client and getting error Domain not bound

I'm trying to set a host to use NIS. I've instlled ypbind and yp-tools. edited /etc/yp.conf: domain mydomain.local server hostname then edited: /etc/sysconfig/network and added: NISDOMAIN="mydomain.local" Then added the NIS server to the client's…
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Need to put two NIS servers in yp.conf file

How do I configure 2 servers in yp.conf I tried : domain domain.com server server1 server2 but it seems to take the first one Tried: domain domain.com server server1 domain domain.com server server2 But i am not sore its working. man yp.conf (or…
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NIS login: one user account multiple home directories possible?

I have a network of linux clients and servers that are used for numerical computations; and I'm using NIS for user authentication. After a successful login, every user lands in her / his home directory (via NFS automount). I have now a second set of…
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upgrade / remove yp server host - who is connected

Is it possible to find out which hosts are using a yp server? I want to remove / update an older VM that's acting as a yp-server but it's not clear which clients are out there.
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