Hello,
we have been using NIS for a rather long time using the old, default NDBM
format (-a d). Since some of the entries (e.g. some lines in groups) had
become that large that makedbm stopped working, we decided to use the
btree format (-a b).
Makedbm had no problems, ypcat/ypwhich worked like a charm, but we had odd
results for login:
Using SSH, SU, telnet etc. no login was possible (it stopped right after
the authentification, i.e. if I used ssh with a wrong password it simply
rejected as ususal). It was even impossible to do -- as root -- a simple
"su" or "su -".
Another strange thing: On the NIS master one could open (as root) as many
xterms as wanted (and a bash --login, csh -l etc worked without a
problem), on a NIS client it didn't work (but as pointed out su didn't
work).
Shutting down NIS solved the problems (for non NIS-users of cause),
switching back from -a b to -a d removed the problems.
With warm regrads,
Tobias
Received on Thu Nov 01 2001 - 11:31:40 NZDT