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craig Armour wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to impliment NIS under linux.  Currently, the server machine
> I'm using is a RH6.0 box and the client machines are RH6.1
>
> on the Client machines I have set in the nsswitch file the following
> settings for passwd: group: etc...
>
> passwd:     compat
> shadow:     compat
> group:      compat
>
> passwd_compat: nis
> group_compat: nis
> shadow_compat: nis
>
> I have added the lines ( or similar )
>
> +::::::
> -fred
> +craig:::::/home2/craig:
> +
>
> to my /etc/passwd file and yet the user includes/excludes still seem to
> fail to work.
>
> has anyone else tried implementing NIS under linux? does anyone have any
> suggestions?  It all appears as if it *should* work :?
>
> Cheers
> Craig
> --
> Craig Armour                    c.armour@arts.uq.edu.au
> System Administrator             Joyce Ackroyd Building
> Language Lab, University of Queensland   phone 33656916

I wondered the same thing.. i wanted to impliment using root under NIS.. no
go as you state..
anyone else have dont this?

Hi,

craig Armour <c.armour@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,

> I'm trying to impliment NIS under linux.  Currently, the server machine
> I'm using is a RH6.0 box and the client machines are RH6.1

> on the Client machines I have set in the nsswitch file the following
> settings for passwd: group: etc...

> passwd:     compat       
> shadow:     compat
> group:      compat

> passwd_compat: nis
> group_compat: nis
> shadow_compat: nis

> I have added the lines ( or similar )

> +::::::
> -fred
> +craig:::::/home2/craig:
> +

> to my /etc/passwd file and yet the user includes/excludes still seem to
> fail to work.

RedHat uses pam_pwdb/libpwdb. This PAM module/library can not handle
this and ignores /etc/nsswitch.conf.

  Thorsten

-- 
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SuSE GmbH            Schanzaeckerstr. 10            90443 Nuernberg
Linux is like a Vorlon.  It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.

In article <89g9ds$24n$1@Fourier.suse.de>,
Thorsten Kukuk  <kukuk@suse.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>craig Armour <c.armour@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> wrote:

[snip]

>> passwd:     compat       
>> shadow:     compat
>> group:      compat
>
>> passwd_compat: nis
>> group_compat: nis
>> shadow_compat: nis



>RedHat uses pam_pwdb/libpwdb. This PAM module/library can not handle
>this and ignores /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
>  Thorsten

Mmm. I have a RH5.2 server with that setup (almost):

passwd:         compat
shadow:         compat
group:          compat

#passwd_compat:         nis
#shadow_compat:         nis
#group_compat:          nis

and user include/exclude (with netgroups) works. Didn't touch
PAM. Clients are RH6.0 and some RH5.2

Ettore
-- 
Ettore Aldrovandi -- SISSA/International School for Advanced Studies 
Via Beirut 2/4, I-34013 Trieste, Italy  
ph: [+] 39 0403787445 -- fax:[+] 39 0403787528 
ettore@fm.sissa.it  aldrovan@sissa.it  http://www.sissa.it/~aldrovan

I am having the same problem with my Red Hat 6.1 NIS client. I have changed
the lines in my nsswitch.conf file and I also changed my /etc/pam.d/login
file but I still can't seem to get the user include/exclude to work. Does
anyone have any suggestions???? Thanks,

Robert Anderson
The Ant Farm
323-850-0700

Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> craig Armour <c.armour@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm trying to impliment NIS under linux.  Currently, the server machine
> > I'm using is a RH6.0 box and the client machines are RH6.1
>
> > on the Client machines I have set in the nsswitch file the following
> > settings for passwd: group: etc...
>
> > passwd:     compat
> > shadow:     compat
> > group:      compat
>
> > passwd_compat: nis
> > group_compat: nis
> > shadow_compat: nis
>
> > I have added the lines ( or similar )
>
> > +::::::
> > -fred
> > +craig:::::/home2/craig:
> > +
>
> > to my /etc/passwd file and yet the user includes/excludes still seem to
> > fail to work.
>
> RedHat uses pam_pwdb/libpwdb. This PAM module/library can not handle
> this and ignores /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
>   Thorsten
>
> --
> Thorsten Kukuk       http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/       kukuk@suse.de
> SuSE GmbH            Schanzaeckerstr. 10            90443 Nuernberg
> Linux is like a Vorlon.  It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
> cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.