[svlug] Problems with Linux NIS in Sun environ

[Michael Turner]

I have a few linux sparcs that seem to work ok connecting to our solaris nis
(nis+ actually, but the linux boxes are only trying nis.) not all the yp
commands work, but it authenticates users and finds hosts without any trouble.
I assume some of the trouble is trying to talk nis to a nis+ server, yes it
basically works but some yp commands don't work like you'd expect.
everything is functional, so I didn't really dig any deeper.  I haven't had to
send mail from/to those machines (they're basically servers) so I don't know
about that part.

-michael


On 03-Sep-98 D. Dante Lorenso wrote:
> Anyone tried using Linux NIS in a Sun environment?  More specifically, I
> have a Linux NIS client accessing a Sun NIS Server, and everything is
> fine except for the "aliases" map.  For some reason, a 
> 
>       ypmatch username aliases
> 
> doesn't match anything.  This is screwing up sendmail (which is set up to
> use NIS maps), and it doesn't allow me to match keys.  Weird thing is that
> the command:
> 
>       ypcat -k aliases | grep username
> 
> will work just fine!  So, the maps are there, but ypmatch doesn't work.
> Strange.  ypmatch does work for all other maps, though.
> 
> Anyone have this problem?  Know how to fix it?
> 
> Dante
> 
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