NIS client and RedHat 8

I'm trying to set up NIS on a couple of RH 8 boxen.

I have the server up and running correctly (I believe). At least all the
services start. I added a dummy user 'joe'.

On the client, I can change joe's password, and I can ypcat passwd and I
get the entry for joe.

But, no matter what I do, I can't get the client to authenticate against
the server. I've added what I think are the correct pam modules:

#%PAM-1.0
auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so auth required
/lib/security/pam_unix.so auth required
/lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required
/lib/security/pam_permit.so account required
/lib/security/pam_unix.so password required
/lib/security/pam_unix.so session required
/lib/security/pam_permit.so session required
/lib/security/pam_unix.so

and I'm running ypserv on the server in debug mode and it doesn't show any
attempt at contact when a user logs in.

What am I missing?

TIA,

-Dondo

Captain Dondo <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> What am I missing?

What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf file?

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andrei

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:40:38 +0000, Andrei Ivanov wrote:

> Captain Dondo <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf file?

Both the client and the server are identical; I am a total newbie to NIS
so I'm guessing. I'm also really unsure of the difference in all the
different flavors of NIS/NIS+/NYS.... I tried to stay within the default
parameters supplied with my system as much as possible....

passwd: files nisplus
shadow: files nisplus
group: files nisplus
hosts: files nisplus dns
bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
networks: files
protocols: files nisplus
rpc: files
services: files nisplus
netgroup: files nisplus
publickey: nisplus
automount: files nisplus
aliases: files nisplus

TIA,

-Dondo

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 06:29:26 -0400, Captain Dondo wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:40:38 +0000, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
>
>> Captain Dondo <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>
>> What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf file?

Some progress....

If I change all the references in nsswitch.conf from nisplus to nis, I can
su joe and get a shell.

But I still can't log in as joe. ypserv -d dumps this:

Found: seiner.lan/passwd.byname (2)
ypdb_close() called
-> Value = "joe:$1$xxxxxxxxPch8/Be0:601:601::/home/joe:/bin/bash"
ypproc_match(): [From: 192.168.128.149:962]
domainname = "xxxxxxx.lan"
mapname = "passwd.byname"
keydat = "joe"
ypdb_open("seiner.lan", "passwd.byname")
Found: seiner.lan/passwd.byname (2)
ypdb_close() called
connect from 192.168.128.149
ypdb_open("seiner.lan", "passwd.byname")
Found: seiner.lan/passwd.byname (2)
ypdb_close() called
-> Value = "joe:$1$iHIYxxxxxxch8/Be0:601:601::/home/joe:/bin/bash"
ypproc_match(): [From: 192.168.128.149:963]
domainname = "xxxxxx.lan"
mapname = "passwd.byname"
keydat = "joe"
ypdb_open("seiner.lan", "passwd.byname")
Found: seiner.lan/passwd.byname (2)
ypdb_close() call

Googleing on this gets me comments like "Look at nsswitch.conf" but I have
no idea what I'm looking for.....

Any ideas?

-Dondo

Captain Dondo <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 06:29:26 -0400, Captain Dondo wrote:
>>> What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf file?
>
> Some progress....
>
> If I change all the references in nsswitch.conf from nisplus to nis, I can
> su joe and get a shell.

"nisplus" stands for NIS+, and "nis" - for NIS / Yellow Pages,
so you should use "nis".

> But I still can't log in as joe.

Is there anything in /var/log/messages?
Is there /home/joe directory (local, or mountable from remote server)?
Don't you have that same account ("joe") in the /etc/passwd file?

--
andrei