On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:
> In our implementation, the NIS server is ActiveDirectory with
ServicesForUnix
> 3.0 :)
Well, maybe it's a bug in that. I was assuming that you
were using a FreeBSD NIS server.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Eischen [mailto:eischen@vigrid.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:13 PM
> > To: Robin P. Blanchard
> > Cc: John De Boskey; current@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.
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Dan Eischen