Hi all,
because my NIS environment still does not work as I expect I have the
following additional questions. I explain the situation on few systems
only.
- I can change the password with yppaswd on one Client (linix5, s.
below). Not on the other (linix3). Whatever I try it gives a
"Mismatch". the same with the slave. All clients have been setup
similarly. See below the yp* tasks on the different systems.
Master and linix5 have DU V4.0D, linix3 V4.0b(?). No patches
applied to all systems.
- Is this correct that the slave ypbind points first to itself
and then to the master? (I could change this but want to understand
first).The man pages say "ypwhich identifies the NIS server
which currently supplies NIS services".
Another thing concerns me. With "passwd user" root could override a user
password. It tried this with "yppasswd user" but then it asks me for the
old password! It worked because I rememebered after all tries a right
one - but this make no sense. Is there no possibility to override the NIS
password? I happens quite often that a user wants his password
resetted.
Concerning the above mentioned "no patches": When I saw some discussions
about patches on this list in the past as rather new to unix I really
got lost, e.g. I don't know what are mandatory ones, which create
other problems.
Regards
Otto
yp* tasks on the different systems:
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linix6 Master DU V4.0D 878
293 ?? S 0:00.54 /usr/sbin/ypserv -a d
299 ?? I 0:00.02 /usr/sbin/ypbind -s -S
domain,linix6.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de,linix2.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
305 ?? I 0:00.05 /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd
/var/yp/src/passwd -m passwd
314 ?? I 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/ypxfrd
linix2 Slave DU V4.0 386
12589 ?? I 0:00.11 /usr/sbin/ypbind -s -S
domain,linix2.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de -S
domain,linix2.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de,linix6.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
14066 ?? S 0:05.94 /usr/sbin/ypserv
Clients:
linix3 DU V4.0b(?) 564
1036 ?? I 0:00.03 /usr/sbin/ypbind -s -S
domain,linix6.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
linix5 DU V4.0D 878
974 ?? I 0:00.05 /usr/sbin/ypbind -s -S
domain,linix6.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de
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Received on Fri Dec 11 1998 - 11:41:12 NZDT