[CentOS] Inconsistent NIS Client Behavior w/ Centos 7.6

James Pearson
Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:32:52 -0000

Capehart, William J wrote:
>
> I am working on bringing back a number of Centos 7 rigs in our
> student computer lab back online. No change was made to the existing
> server machine [running Scientific Linux 6]
>
> Right now there is one remaining thing to resolve: an inconsistency
> with the rigs' NIS Clients.
>
> I have configured rcpbind and ypbind following guidance from Server
> World ( https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=nis&f=2
)
> identically on all of the client machines.  I have done this before
> with previous installs before this.  The last time was this summer.
> Three are behaving as they are supposed to do. Five, however, are
> not.
>
> In this process I have repeatedly checked that support files ..
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network
> /etc/yp.conf
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth
> /etc/login.defs
> /etc/sysconfig/authconfig

Do you have nis set up in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?

James Pearson