[Freeipa-users] EXTERNAL: Re: NIS Compat issues

[Rob Crittenden]

Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 05:22:22AM -0500, Joseph, Matthew (EXP) wrote:
>> When I run ypcat on the IPA servers it states that ypbind can't communicate.
>> I started ypbind on the secondary IPA server so now I can run ypcat.
>> Is running ypbind on the IPA servers necessary? According to all of the documentation I read it doesn't mention anything about ypbind on the servers.
>
> Any system on which you intend to run ypcat, ypmatch, or any of the NIS
> client commands should run ypbind, whether it's talking to a more
> traditional NIS server or an IPA server with its NIS service enabled.
>

I run ypcat w/o ypbind all the time for testing. You just need to 
specify the server and domain on the command-line:

$ ypcat -h `hostname` -d example.com passwd

rob