NIS+ & changing root passwords
2007-12-25 8:44:00
> Am I the only one that had problems when attempting to change my root
> password on our NIS+ master? It freaked out afterwards...completely.
> I had to restore all of /var/nis to recover.
>
> Awhile back, SUN sent me the fix below, however it still didn't work.
> I am looking for a solution if anyone has one since I really don't
> feel like trying it again.
>
> I am running Solaris 2.3 with the mandatory patches installed, and our
> NIS+ master is running on Security Level 2.
>
>
Well, I only got one response but it was RIGHT ON THE MONEY!
Thanks to Rogerio, everything is working fine. I love how SUN doesn't
document everything...it must be a great skill to have. :-) ;-)
Peter Sivo
Amdahl/Open Enterprise Systems
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> Awhile back, SUN sent me the fix below, however it still didn't work. I
> am looking for a solution if anyone has one since I really don't feel
> like trying it again.
At the beginning of our NIS+ (w/ Solaris 2.1) we had problems with
part of the commands and found out that the sequence of commands like
this one ,
> /usr/lib/nis/nisping `nisdefaults -d`
> /usr/lib/nis/nisping org_dir.`nisdefaults -d`
> /usr/lib/nis/nisping groups_dir.`nisdefaults -d`
should be treated carefully , that is "check that one
command has already finished , before starting the next one".
One way to check is looking , via Snoop , at the NIS traffic ,
in our case Master to replica.
The above caution , which is written nowhere , was not obvious, even
to the SUN SW eng. that was installing it (or was it re-installing) ,
and was a last attempt after some nonsucessfull ones (2 to 4?), so
it ended up beeing a "feature not documented"
Best regards,
Rogerio Rocha
BVL - Lisbon Stock Exchange
Information Systems
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