SUMMARY: problem with nis on solaris 7 sparc

From: vladimir-sun-managers@math.uic.edu
Date: Mon Nov 15 1999 - 14:36:30 CST


Original message:

>From vladimir Sun Nov 14 23:31:11 1999
>To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
>Subject: problem with nis on solaris 7 sparc
>
>Dear Sun Managers,
>
>after initializing nis on a solaris 7 machine,
>(I ran /usr/sbin/ypinit -m to setup the master yp server),
>I got the error messages:
>Nov 14 19:06:23 minkowski.math.uic.edu ypbind[343]:
>service not installed, use /usr/sbin/ypinit -c
>
>Attempts to change the password fail with the error:
>passwd (NIS): Couldn't change passwd/attributes for vladimir
>Permission denied
>
>I can ypcat passwd and other maps on the master nis server. I cannot
>figure this out, what do you think might be wrong? Thank you!
>
> Vladimir
> vladimir@math.uic.edu
>
>

I found a problem. I was initializing the yp master server with
domainname set to math.uic. (not the '.' at the end).
This doesn't work! I did a truss on ypserv process, it was trying
to open /var/yp/math.uic/ypservers file (note there is no dot here).
After reinitializing yp master with domainname set to "math.uic"
things worked ok.
Thanks for all who replied! I honestly don't see how anyone could find
an answer from the information I had provided.
Thanks to
Michael Cunningham <malice@exit109.com>
"David Evans" <DJEVANS@au.oracle.com>
Rami Dass <r-dass@ntx1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Fitzgerald, Nollaig" <nollaig.fitzgerald@nz.unisys.com>

        Vladimir
        vladimir@math.uic.edu



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