[rhn-users] NIS or automounter problem

[Guillermo Barton = Shark]

If your users have home directories that are mounting from some other 
machine it could be that the home directories for your users cannot be 
found. And you will see that exact behaviour...at least for root or 
other local users you can edit the /etc/passwd file and change to a  
known working directory.  take a look with chkconfig at the autofs startup.
editing /etc/nsswitch.conf and removing nis from the entries you want 
will give you the same effect as authconfig in the message below.

best of luck,

-Guillermo

E Azariah Jason-G20266 wrote:
>  Hi,
> Be at single user mode ( rescue mode) and fire the command called
> authconfig , and disable NIS authentication. It will disable the NIS
> services (YP) . After this switch over to run level 3 and trouble shoot
> the issue.
>
> Thanks
> Jason.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Sterling, James A
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:36 PM
> To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com);
> hugo.simon at gmx.de
> Subject: RE: [rhn-users] NIS or automounter problem
>
> In single user just go to /etc and edit fstab to disable the mount
> points Also in /etc/rc.d/init.d you will find autofs link.. You can
> disable that 
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> jasiii
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugo Simon [mailto:hugo.simon at gmx.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 7:58 AM
> To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)
> Subject: [rhn-users] NIS or automounter problem
>
> Hi,
>
> I have some problems with Redhat EL machine. It was configured as a NIS
> member for over a year, running fine. Since monday I cannot log on to
> the machine. Not as root or any other user. Also not directly on the
> console.
> The system accepts user ID and password but the stops responding. No
> error message, nothing.
>
> When I reboot the machine I notice that "starting autofs" takes minutes,
> which was before a matter of seconds. I don't think that there are
> critical directories automounted via NFS or so. But I cannot verify this
> because I cannot logon. :-(
>
> I tried starting in single user mode. That works. But then? What can I
> do?
> Maybe disabling the NIS and automounter at first would be a good idea.
> But how? I work with Linux seldom, so I need some hints.
>
> Other machines running AIX working with the same NIS environment and
> even mounting the same NFS folders are running fine.
>
> Any comment would be helpful.
>
> Thank you
> Thorsten
>
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