Help diagnosing NIS breakage ?

Daniel Eischen eischen at vigrid.com
Mon Jul 14 11:12:50 PDT 2003


On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:

> That did it....
> 
> Using latest -CURRENT sources, but backing out to
> src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c,v 1.81 gets NIS clients working again. Re-sync
> this in CVS ?

The change (rev 1.82) to getpwent.c allows FreeBSD NIS clients
to work with Solaris NIS+ servers running in YP compatibility
mode.  Without the change, FreeBSD clients in such an environment
can't log in.

I think this is exposing a bug in our NIS implementation,
but don't know enough about it to be sure.  I think backing
it out just hides the bug again.  As a work-around, we
could try yp_order first, and if that fails, try yp_master.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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