On Tue Nov 14, 4:40pm, I said:
> We've attempted to install a NIS master server on an Alpha 3000/800 running
> OSF/1 3.0, but had to back down due to extreme sluggishness.
>
> We followed all of the intructions in the Network Configuration Guide, except
> that we only want to deal with the passwd, group, and hosts databases. The
> Alpha is the master server; there are no slave servers or clients (there will
> be clients once the the server actually works).
>
> Having configured everything correctly, I reboot, login, and as a test, try
> to change my password with yppasswd (we are running rpc.yppasswdd). I get
> the "Changing NIS password" message and then it hangs for a good five minutes
> before asking me my old password. Ditto when I try to su.
One thing is that if there are no slave servers, the ypservers map should be
empty (ours listed the master as a slave server). It still must be created,
only without any entries, like so:
cd /var/yp
./makedbm - <domainname>/ypservers
<ctrl-d>
Jon Buchanan <Jonathan.Buchanan_at_ska.com> suggested, among other things:
Make sure the hashed password files /etc/passwd.dir and
/etc/passwd.pag do not exist or NIS gets confused. Delete
them if they are present (you really don't need them - honest!)
and don't ever remake them when asked by the adduser utility.
The combination of these two things appears to have fixed our problems.
However, there is a remaining issue with yppasswdd, which is manifested in
rpc.yppasswdd writing the DBM passwd maps mode 666 (group and world writable).
We have filed a bug report with DEC and are awaiting a fix. If you run the
yppasswd server and don't have this problem (with OSF/1 3.0) I'd be very
interested in hearing from you!
Thanks to all who replied...
jonathan
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Received on Mon Nov 27 1995 - 22:32:23 NZDT