Bug 34896
Summary: | username not found through nis | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | adler |
Component: | ypbind | Assignee: | Florian La Roche <laroche> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | CC: | adler |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-04-05 20:12:15 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
adler
2001-04-05 16:22:52 UTC
Do you have a firewall enabled? As noted in the release notes, this will block any RPC-based services such as NIS. Is "nis" listed on the "passwd:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf (it should be, but there's no harm in checking)? Do you get any output from "getent passwd adler"? Everything should work fine if you either use /usr/sbin/authconfig to configure the yp server or if you edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and enable nis lookups. Does this help to get it running? I believe I've found the problem. the file /etc/nisswitch did not have 'nis' entries for the password file. I don't understand why ypcat worked, even though /etc/nisswitch did not have and 'nis' entry in the file for passwd and group files. It would be nice that by default, nis was the last in the list of "nis options". In anycase, once I added "nis" to the list of "where to get file from", the system was able to identify the user at login. |