Shame on me. I sent a summary of steps for this and similar issues several
months ago to this list and I did not follow all those steps myself.
I was missing the line
auth=yp,local
in /etc/svc.conf
Thanks to those folks who responded.
> Managers,
>
> We have a DS20 server running NIS and providing NIS service to a cluster of
> ES40s (all systems are V4.0F PK#4).
>
> Now we have a new cluster of 3 ES40s for which we would like to use the
> same NIS service. However, none of the NIS users are able to login on the
> new cluster. Is there something specific we should be doing? We did the
> following on the systems in the new cluster:
>
> 1. Install C2
> 2. Configure NIS
> 3. /usr/tcb/bin/convauth -d dfptv -v
>
> When we run the above we get the following error:
>
> /var/yp/src/passwd
> /var/yp/src/passwd.ptmp
> Can't update database entry for /var/yp/src/prpasswd
> Created database file /tcb/files/auth.db
> Created database file /var/tcb/files/auth.db
> adm
> Failed to parse entry beginning with auth:u_name=auth:u_i
> Created database file /etc/auth/system/ttys.db
> Failed to parse entry beginning with console:t_devname=co
> Created database file /etc/auth/system/devassign.db
>
> I would appreciate any responses.
>
>
> Thank you.
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Received on Fri Sep 14 2001 - 22:43:02 NZST