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Bug 245096

Summary: system-config-authentication fails to update /etc/sysconfig/network for NIS domain
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Wesly Chen <wesly_chen>
Component: authconfigAssignee: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.0CC: psplicha
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0375 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-05-21 14:29:35 UTC Type: ---
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Fixed authinfo.py none

Description Wesly Chen 2007-06-21 02:15:27 UTC 
Description of problem:
Config the NIS domain and server via "system-config-authentication", it updates 
the /etc/yp.conf file. But it does NOT put "NISDOMAIN=xxx" 
in /etc/sysconfig/network. So when I run "service ypbind start" or reboot the 
machine, ypbind doesn't run unless I type "domainname xxx".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
authconfig-gtk-5.3.12-2.el5.x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. run /usr/sbin/system-config-authentication
2. check "Enable NIS Support" and click on "Configure NIS..."
3. Fill in "NIS Domain" and "NIS Server"
4. Click "OK" and "OK"

Actual results:
ypbind start successfully. But /etc/sysconfig/network is not updated 
with "NISDOMAIN=xxx"

Expected results:
/etc/sysconfig/network need to be updated with "NISDOMAIN=xxx". Otherwise, the 
ypbind won't start after reboot due to NIS domain is not set.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2007-06-21 12:53:55 UTC 
*** Bug 245097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2007-06-21 13:47:27 UTC 
Created attachment 157534 [details]
Fixed authinfo.py

Can you please try to replace /usr/share/authinfo.py with this one and try to
set the nis domain again?
Comment 3 Wesly Chen 2007-06-22 03:26:40 UTC 
Should it be 
/usr/share/authconfig/authinfo.py
?

It did update /etc/sysconfig/network.
Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2007-06-22 09:23:31 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Should it be 
> /usr/share/authconfig/authinfo.py
> ?
Yes, of course.

> It did update /etc/sysconfig/network.
Great.
Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-31 18:25:05 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 9 Petr Šplíchal 2008-01-31 10:30:40 UTC 
The problem only occurs when supplied domain name is the same as previous one
saved in yp.conf (which seems like there is no need to update, but
/etc/sysconfig/network has to be updated nevertheless).

How to test:
authconfig --enablenis --nisdomain redhat.com --nisserver 172.16.76.10 --update
remove NISDOMAIN line from /etc/sysconfig/network
authconfig --enablenis --nisdomain redhat.com --nisserver 172.16.76.10 --update
NISDOMAIN=redhat.com should be present in /etc/sysconfig/network
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 14:29:35 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0375.html
Comment 13 Chris Ward 2008-06-17 15:48:41 UTC 
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