Dear Managers,
When I came in this morning, I found I had a lot of errors from
authck (which I run nightly from a script called by cron). authck
compained that virutally every NIS user (possibly all; I can't check)
was in the Protected Password database but couldn't be verified by
calling getprpwent(). When run from the command line authck hangs
trying to compare the Protected Password database with /etc/passwd.
NIS users have no trouble logging in, however I can't run
dxaccounts to add a new user. dxaccounts hangs when you click OK
after entering the data for the new user. I checked that the proper
entries are indeed appended to /var/yp/src/prpasswd and
/var/yp/src/passwd. However, a make of either passwd or prpasswd in
/var/yp also hangs.
It sounds like the NIS maps are corrupted somehow, but I don't
know where. Any suggestions?
Larry
Received on Thu Aug 05 1999 - 18:06:30 NZST