[ILUG] NIS Client running on the NIS Server

[Dunphy Richard-rdunph01]

Spoke too soon....

I've removed the users from /etc/passwd and all seems to work ok now except for setting the password on the server.

Using passwd gives the following output
  Old Password: 
  New password: 
  Re-enter new password: 
  yppasswdd not running on NIS master zeus
  Error: Password NOT changed
  Segmentation fault

and yppasswd simply gives
  yppasswd: yppasswdd not running on NIS master host

But doing an 'rpcinfo -u zeus yppasswd' gives
  program 100009 version 1 ready and waiting

Even a 'ps -ae | grep ypp' gives
  15129 ?        00:00:00 rpc.yppasswdd

So what am I missing??? 

Rik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 [mailto:Rik.Dunphy at motorola.com]
> Sent: 10 October 2001 15:05
> To: Irish Linux UG (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] NIS Client running on the NIS Server
> 
> 
> Thanks all!
> 
> I had most of it worked out, but it was the yppasswd screwing 
> me up. When I run both the master and client on the server 
> passwd still tries to access the local /etc/passwd. While on 
> a true client passwd always directs to the yppasswd!
> 
> Anyway, I'll give it a shot and be back if I have problems
> 
> RikD.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gavin McCullagh [mailto:gavin at fiachra.ucd.ie]
> > Sent: 10 October 2001 14:46
> > To: Irish Linux UG (E-mail)
> > Cc: Niall O Broin
> > Subject: Re: [ILUG] NIS Client running on the NIS Server
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:28:06PM +0100, Dunphy 
> > Richard-rdunph01 wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > > If you're using NIS use it completely and correctly which 
> > means that you
> > > don't have user entries anywhere except on the NIS master server. 
> > 
> > I couldn't agree more.  A few years ago when I knew nothing 
> about *NIX
> > (what's changed, I here them cry) I was put to work on a 
> > linux machine as a
> > local user.  It was also using NIS.  It turned out that my 
> > UserID coincided
> > with that of one the NIS users.  Caused all sorts of odd 
> > behaviour I can
> > tell you.
> > 
> > I'd also suggest if this system is important the idea of using NIS
> > Masters/Slaves/Clients.  This way the Master holds the YP 
> > database.  But
> > the slaves take a copy of it.  The clients behave as clients 
> > always did.
> > The idea is that the clients can connect to any master/slave 
> > for their YP.
> > Then should your master go down for some reason, all accounts 
> > do not disappear
> > off all clients cos one of the slaves can take over.
> > 
> > Gavin
> > 
> > 
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