[97854] in RedHat Linux List
Re: NIS and RedHat 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Thu Nov 5 12:48:47 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:41:30 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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Further down the road:
I upgraded from 5.1 to 5.2. My problems were half solved when I fixed
named on my server. (Applause to RedHat for moving to bind 8!) that
was simple: move /etc/named.conf.rpmorig to /etc/named.conf. RedHat
5.2 has a nice perl script that converts your bind 4 named.boot to a
bind 8 named.conf. Once I could do lookups again, ypbind can get info
from the server.
However, I cannot login as NIS authenticated users. So far as I can
tell, everything is now set up properly. Users are shadow on the
remote system ( I know what the HOWTO says about this ). There is a
map for shadow passwords on the NIS server, and I added an alias, in
the case that the lack of one was the source of my problems.
The HOWTO says that glibc has support for shadow passwords over NIS,
but PAM does not. I was using shadow passwords and NIS on RedHat5.1
before the update, however.
Thanks
MSG
"Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" wrote:
> To get NIS going under RHL 5.1 in the first place, you probably had to
> change some configuration files, IIRC all of them in /etc (or sub dirs
> thereof). You might have done so using the control-panel of linuxconf.
> All of these would have got replaced by the new versions, which -
> obviously - don't contain your changes. Have a close look at /etc and you'll
> probably notice a few files ending in .rpmsave. Those are the old
> configuration files that got saved during the upgrade (at least it's
> supposed to be that way...). Check those for the changes you made and
> transfer the changes to the new files. *Don't* simply copy the .rpmsave
> files over the new ones, as you might be missing out on new features or
> other changes of the new software.
> The other option would be (if you used control-panel or linuxconf) to go
> through all the steps you did in RHL 5.1 to get NIS going and repeat them
> (you *did* write them down, didn't you?).
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