Bug 235927

Summary:	authconfig --enablenis --nisdomain=domain does not work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component:	authconfig	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Orion Poplawski 2007-04-10 20:39:41 UTC

Description of problem:

Have:

authconfig --enableshadow --enablenis --nisdomain=yp.colorado-research.com

in my kickstart file.  After install NISDOMAIN was not set in
/etc/sysconfig/network.

After install ran:

# authconfig --enableshadow --enablenis --nisdomain=yp.colorado-research.com
--update

and it started ypbind and connected, but NISDOMAIN was still not set in
/etc/sysconfig/network.  On reboot, NIS did not start because the domain name
was not set.

 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
authconfig-5.3.13-3.fc7

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2007-04-11 07:47:28 UTC

What do you have in /etc/yp.conf after the kickstart and after the second
authconfig run?

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2007-04-11 15:10:43 UTC

# Valid entries are
#
# domain NISDOMAIN server HOSTNAME
#       Use server HOSTNAME for the domain NISDOMAIN.
#
# domain NISDOMAIN broadcast
#       Use  broadcast  on  the local net for domain NISDOMAIN
#
# domain NISDOMAIN slp
#       Query local SLP server for ypserver supporting NISDOMAIN
#
# ypserver HOSTNAME
#       Use server HOSTNAME for the  local  domain.  The
#       IP-address of server must be listed in /etc/hosts.
#
# broadcast
#       If no server for the default domain is specified or
#       none of them is rechable, try a broadcast call to
#       find a server.
#
domain yp.colorado-research.com broadcast

Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2007-04-11 16:19:04 UTC

Could you try to remove the last line and rerun the authconfig with --update and
look at the yp.conf and sysconfig/network again?

Comment 4 Orion Poplawski 2007-04-11 16:49:53 UTC

That did it.  NISDOMAIN is set in sysconfig/network and yp.conf is correct.  So
now we just need to know what failed during install?

Comment 5 Tomas Mraz 2007-04-11 17:02:36 UTC

Well the kickstart command above is missing --update but that would mean that
neither yp.conf nor sysconfig/network will be set.

So I suppose --update was there. What's strange is why the sysconfig/network
wasn't set up correctly. Perhaps something overwrites it after authconfig was
run in kickstart? It would be really interesting to know what went wrong.

Nevertheless I have a fix for the second authconfig --update run so it will set
the sysconfig/network NISDOMAIN correctly even in the case it is already set in
yp.conf.

Comment 6 Orion Poplawski 2007-05-22 20:05:27 UTC

Apparently this was a problem with my local modification to the ypbind startup
script.  New ypbind init script can set the domain name based on /etc/yp.conf
and doesn't require NISDOMAINNAME set in /etc/sysconfig/network.  Sorry about that.