Help diagnosing NIS breakage ?

[Robin P. Blanchard]

In our implementation, the NIS server is ActiveDirectory with ServicesForUnix
3.0 :)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Eischen [mailto:eischen at vigrid.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:13 PM
> To: Robin P. Blanchard
> Cc: John De Boskey; current at freebsd.org; Jacques A. Vidrine
> Subject: RE: Help diagnosing NIS breakage ?
> 
> 
> 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