Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 43761
Local accounts don't get priority over NIS accounts.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:36 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: If you have a local account defined in /etc/passwd it is ignored in favour of the NIS account. This is a change from previous behaviour and contradicts /etc/nsswitch.conf which has: passwd: files nis You can get it to work as before by changing /etc/nsswitch.conf to: passwd: files compat and adding +::0:0::: to the end of /etc/passwd. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. stop ypbind 2. create a local account for a user in the NIS passwd database 3. start ypbind 4. login as that user or try to change the password. Actual Results: You will be logged in with the password and account details of the NIS user rather than the locally defined user . If you try to change the password it will want to change it on the NIS server rather than locally. Expected Results: The local account should take priority over NIS as specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf (or at least that was the previous behaviour). This change is not documented anywhere as far as I can tell. Additional info:
I did some quick testing yesterday after a report from a remote site but the information I had was wrong and I came to wrong conclusion. This is not a problem with ypbind but with passwd. Please ignore this bug report. I'll register as a bug with passwd.