Questions tagged [nis]
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Trying to configure NIS on a centos client and getting error Domain not bound
I'm trying to set a host to use NIS.
I've instlled ypbind and yp-tools.
edited /etc/yp.conf:
domain mydomain.local server hostname
then edited: /etc/sysconfig/network and added:
NISDOMAIN="mydomain.local"
Then added the NIS server to the client's…
Itai Ganot
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One of my NIS users can't login - why?
I've got an old Solaris 8 server as a client in a NIS domain. All users can login just fine except for one (user 'oracle'). It used to work but late last year "something" changed (I wasn't here at the time) and the user oracle can no longer login.
I…
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How to have logs about users logins/logouts in a NIS server?
I have a NIS server in a Debian machine with several user accounts in passwd and shadow files.
Also, I have 10 Ubuntu desktop boxes rununning as NIS clients. The users can login by binding to the NIS server (in those boxes there is only root account…
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ssh login attempts fail randomly - but work otherwise for same user
I'm having strange ssh login issues, where the login for a user does work in general, but sometimes it doesn't. here's a failed login attempt:
Mar 28 14:49:55 hostname sshd[32247]: Invalid user sshuser from 172.16.1.19
Mar 28 14:49:55 hostname…
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Need to put two NIS servers in yp.conf file
How do I configure 2 servers in yp.conf
I tried :
domain domain.com server server1 server2
but it seems to take the first one
Tried:
domain domain.com server server1
domain domain.com server server2
But i am not sore its working.
man yp.conf (or…
Eran Chetzroni
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NIS user/group ID resolution fails for one NFS volume but succeeds for another
Network setup:
(1) NIS server (nisserver),
(2) file server (fserver),
(3) cluster head server (queuemaster)
(4) cluster compute nodes (node1,node2,...) (gateway=queuemaster)
fserver is a NIS client (to nisserver), queuemaster is a NIS slave…
J.B. Brown
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NIS login: one user account multiple home directories possible?
I have a network of linux clients and servers that are used for numerical computations; and I'm using NIS for user authentication. After a successful login, every user lands in her / his home directory (via NFS automount).
I have now a second set of…
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Integrate LDAP into NIS
I have the task to implement a LDAP service for the typical use cases: User authentication, storing more information on users, storing information on machines, etc.
Currently, we have a working NIS system in conjunction with NFS for Linux…
ypnos
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how to install NIS client on windows server 2012?
how to install NIS client on windows server 2012?
Can I do it or not?
It seems only migrate it but no client
worldterminator
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Automount parses NIS map incorrectly on SLES 11.2 x86_64
Good morning,
I came across a problem in SLES 11.2 x86_64 where the automount daemon parses a NIS map file incorrectly. It seems to be working fine in SLES 11.1 32 bit, and I cannot see any difference in the configurations of the two systems.
What…
struppi
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NIS authorization and adding existing user
Recently i have apply NIS in our testing environment in order to get more control and centralized password management for user in the server.But when I'm finished implementing the NIS,I'm facing some issues.The issues are :
1.How to add existing…
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Passwordless ssh with NFS+NIS
I'm playing around with a cluster (with torque+open-mpi). I have a master node and compute nodes. Master submit jobs to computes nodes. To do it I use NIS+NFS in order to unify UID's and home directory. In order to execute remote commands I use ssh…
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I can't logon to the mail server using an NIS user account
Below is my configuration
# 2.0.13: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 3.0.0-17-server x86_64 Ubuntu 11.10
auth_mechanisms = plain login
mail_location = maildir:/nfs/users/%u/Maildir
passdb {
args = scheme=CRYPT username_format=%u…
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What is required for LDAP authentication to work?
I would like to have LDAP authentication on a webpage.
On a CentOS server the .htaccess looks like this
Order deny,allow
Deny from All
AuthName "Only members"
AuthType Basic
AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative on
AuthLDAPUrl…
Sandra
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Output of groups different then id
I'm sure this is something simple, but I can't for the life of me figure out what is going on.
We are using NIS (haven't had a chance to migrate to LDAP) and for some reason the groups aren't being displayed correctly.
[scott.adair@tor-admin01 ~]$…
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