[K12OSN] NIS user authenticated OK but nothing works

[Martin Woolley]

On Saturday 23 Oct 2004 10:49 pm, Jim Christiansen wrote:
> Hello,  Is the NIS problem fixed?  I use my K12LTSP server 3.1.x to
> authenticate by NIS all of my standalone linux boxes...  Things are working
> for me, so maybe I can help.  I can tell you that my students DO get "I
> have no name" showing up in the an xterminal prompt, but everything does
> work just fine for my thousands of logons every day.  Jim

G'day Jim
thanks for your email; I've been on holiday so I haven't been able to reply.
Yes it is all working now thanks.  Your "I have no name" issue can be resolved 
by the uncommenting of these lines in  /etc/ypserv.conf
# *                        : *       : passwd.byname  : port
# *                        : *       : passwd.byuid     : port
if you uncomment these lines, an unprivaledges user cannot read the password 
map file and so their uid cannot be translated to a uname.  Thus any 
application that needs to resolve uid to uname, (eg open office, abiword, 
koffice, etc, etc) will fail.  This was the reason I could login but once 
logged nothing would work.
--
Regards
Martin Woolley
ICT Support
Handsworth Grammar School
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