[Techtalk] NIS: Solaris 8 server, RH 8 client -- authentication not working

[Mandi]

Caity --

is your portmap service started?  I forget the silliness it took to track
that down at my last job.  but nis wants the rpc portmapper running.  i
forget what nis looks like under rpcinfo, though.

(i hope it's that easy for ya... :) )

--mandi

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 caitlynmaire at earthlink.net wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> OK, I'm doing something simple and stupid wrong, but... I can't get NIS authentication to work on RH 8.  I'll admit I've only done NIS on Solaris (with Irix clients), so this is all new to me.  Oh, and yeah, I read the HOWTO and did everything suggested.
>
> -shadow passwords are off (yuck!)
> -NIS client is binding to the NIS server -- no errors there at bootup
> -nis is in the appropriate places in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file (can provide the text if anyone wants to see it)
> -/etc/yp.conf file:
>
> #
> domain <MYDOMAIN> server <nisserver fqdn>
>
> -+:::::: added to /etc/passwd file
>
> -/etc/pam.d/login file <needs to be tightened up later>
>
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth		requisite	/lib/security/pam_unix.so
> auth		required	/lib/security/pam_securetty.so
> auth		required 	/lib/security/pam_nologin.so
> account		required	/lib/security/pam_unix.so
> password	required	/lib/security/pam_pwcheck.so	nullok
> password	required	/lib/security/pam_unix.so	nullok use_first_pass use_authtok
> session		required	/lib/security/pam_unix.so
> session		required	/lib/security/pam_limits.so
> session		optional	/lib/security/pam_console.so
>
> If I try to do a ypcat hosts or ypcat passwd it tells me it can't bind to the server it seemed to bind to fine at boot time.  I don't get it.
>
> I'm not even worrying about automounting home directories yet.  The necessary home directories for testing exist.  I first want to get my Linux box talking to my Solaris box.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks,
> Caity
>
>
>
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