Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 127306
authconfig breaks NIS config when using multiple domains
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:02 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 Description of problem: # cat /etc/yp.conf domain server server hsdns01 domain sapdomain2 server hs0yp1 Run authconfig; use NIS (or leave it as NIS). It says Domain: server Server: hs0yp1,hsdns01 which obviously is wrong. It then writes another wrong /etc/yp.conf: # cat /etc/yp.conf domain server server hs0yp1 ypserver hsdns01 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): authconfig-4.3.7-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description. 2. 3. Expected Results: Don't break handcrafted config files! Handle multiple domains correctly, present choice of available domains. Additional info:
Dear Uwe, the version of authconfig behaves correctly with only one NIS domain. Furthermore the authconfig prefers getting the NIS domain name from /etc/sysconfig/network than from /etc/yp.conf so the last domain in the yp.conf was replaced by it. See your /etc/sysconfig/network, where you have NISDOMAIN=server. The export of authconfig is really a bug that I'll try to fix. The parser writes hostnames in reversed order in respect to the original file and any other domain tags except the first one are written as ypserver. greetings, Jindrich
Fixed in Fedora core development, authconfig-5.0.2-1, it shouldn't break configs with multiple domains anymore.
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