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Disconnect NIS authentication on SVN server
I have SVN configured to authenticate against NIS, also not sure how it authenticates against NIS.
I want to disconnect the server from NIS and convert it to local authentication.
How this can be ...
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windows10 server NFS winNFSd.exe with NFS client unix access with username e password
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-n°1 pc windows10 with winNFSd.exe
I managed to access the Windows 10 PC with Ubuntu like this:
sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=3 192.168.1.16:/pr /media/win
sudo mount -t nfs -o ...
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NIS / YP make - mail.aliases Callback timed out
I am trying to add the mail.aliases map to my Makefile on my NIS/YP server. I have added 'mail' to list of maps to build, and ensured that it is pointing to the correct aliases file (/etc/aliases).
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ssh via public key authentication for users administered with NIS
I'm experimenting with using NIS for centralizing the user management for a network of approx 20 servers.
I've got an NIS client and server working, and can ssh to the client machine and successfully ...
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Disable nis login for a particular user on a particular machine
We have a nis server and a nis client in a domain. As part of the in-charge of a subdomain, I want to enable nis logins for only some users on a particular machine, and want to disable the rest of the ...
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ypbind.service times out, but ypbind runs manually
I've got a new Rocky 8.6 system, and I've run into an issue I've never seen before.
The ypbind.service times out when I try to start/restart, but if I run ypbind as root, it starts just fine.The ...
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NIS authorization and adding existing user
Recently i have apply NIS in our testing environment in order to get more control and centralized password management for user in the server.But when I'm finished implementing the NIS,I'm facing some ...
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Using active directory group as netgroup in sssd
I have an active directory domain with a handful of linux servers that interact with AD through sssd. I want to have a different sudoers configuration on different servers, and I know this can be ...
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What NIS maps are needed for OSX 10.6 to authenticate?
What NIS maps are necessary for OSX 10.6 to authenticate?
I have an ubuntu-sever sharing NIS, and from the OSX client, ypcat passwd, ypcat group and (as root) ypcat shadow.byname all work, and return ...
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How to remove NIS server role from all domain controllers before upgrading to Windows server 2019
So we are currently have 4 2012R2 domain controllers with IDMU (Identity Management for Unix) and NIS server role installed. For NIS server role, one DC is in master mode, other 3 DCs are in ...
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OSX 10.6 integration into NIS/netgroup/automount infrastructure
I have an existing infrastructure where accounts are maintained under NIS (yp) with no local unix accounts. Also, all the standard maps including hosts, mail aliases, netgroups, etc...are maintained ...
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How to replace NIS authentication with Kerberos: Client not found in Kerberos database
I followed the Oracle tutorial for configuring NIS and using Kerberos as the authentication mechanism. I believe I got the Realm and KDC configured and running correctly on a server that is running ...
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SAMBA+NIS on Linux with Windows 7/8/10 clients
I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to run a samba server on a Linux distribution with a NIS service and use them in conjunction with a Widnows 7/8/10 client to make it work as it's local ...
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Unable to open Firefox and some other applications after switching to new NIS and NFS servers
We have just upgraded two servers providing a number of services to our network including NFS and NIS. User authentication is done by one server (serverA) and home directories and a number of shared ...
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usb stick "not authorized to perform"
Hello (sorry for my poor english).
I have a fresh install of desktop clients linux mint 19.2 with a NIS authentication.
Local users can plug usb-stick and it automount without problem.
On the other ...
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How to create a custom NIS map?
I'd like to create a custom NIS map in order to be able to look up my own information using ypmatch and map between local and centralised usernames. How can this be achieved?
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NIS users suddenly can't login to SSH
I've recently added a new (client) server to my NIS. For a month or so this worked fine, but since today I suddenly can't login through SSH anymore. Some other services (e.g. IMAP) on the same server ...
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NIS: which mechanism hides shadow.byname for unpriviledged users?
On some Linux box (SLES 11.1) which is a NIS client I can do as root:
ypcat shadow.byname
and get output, i.e. some lines with the encrypted passwords, amongst other information.
On the same Linux ...
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trying to find which static port for NIS or NFS service in firewalld
On our slave NIS server we have in /etc/sysconfig/network I've set
YPSERV_ARGS="-p 944"
YPXFRD_ARGS="-p 945"
and OTHER_YPBIND_OPTS="-p 3000" in /etc/ypbind.conf and YPPASSWDD_ARGS="--port 946" in /...
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NIS failing to bind
I have a bunch of machines which authenticate via NIS to a central server. I just bought a new CentOS 6.2 client machine, and it can't authenticate.
The following is a list of the classics people ...
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do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
faulters:
Despite much troubleshooting in my NIS/YP setup, rebooting systems, restarting & debugging ypbind, putting nscd to run, a group of newly purchased systems regularly spam my email with:
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How to set up NIS client in Docker container?
I am setting up a Jenkins master inside a Docker container. The container runs on an Ubuntu 16.04 host, which itself is a virtual machine.
We use NIS for authentication in Jenkins, but I cannot get ...
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Overwriting /etc/ Files between two servers
I'm the process of migrating an NIS server from one machine running Ubuntu 9.10 to a new one running Ubuntu 14.04.4 Server, and following these instructions:
How do I replace an NIS master server?
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rfc2307bis LDAP schema: ipNetmaskNumber lookup for an ipHost object
I'm using Openldap for IAM, and consider using it also as a configuration management backend.
The rfc2307bis schema has an ipHost class, which allows for ipHostNumber attribute, but not for the ...
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Why my profile looks for /usr/local/etc/profile.global (NIS)
My Ubuntu ID is manged by NIS/yellowpage. For some reason, when I log in, I'm getting this message.
cat@local:~$ ssh catserver
cat@catserver's password:
Welcome to Ubuntu 15.10 (GNU/Linux 4.2.0-25-...
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How to have logs about users logins/logouts in a NIS server?
I have a NIS server in a Debian machine with several user accounts in passwd and shadow files.
Also, I have 10 Ubuntu desktop boxes rununning as NIS clients. The users can login by binding to the NIS ...
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How to fix long delays and "Callback timed out" errors with NIS master and slave set up?
I have an NIS master and slave set up, and whenever I do something that requires synchronization between the two (such as adding a new user), there are long delays that eventually end in a "Callback ...
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NIS user not being added to NIS group
I have set up a NIS server and several NIS clients. I have a user and a group on the NIS server like so:
/etc/passwd: myself:x:5000:5000:,,,:/home/myself:/bin/bash
/etc/group: fishy:x:3001:...
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NIS not respecting files first in nsswitch.conf
Okay, first off, I know NIS is a turd, but it's what we've got until we do a major migration next year.
Today we had a NIS server outage which predictably prevents user logins. What surprised me was ...
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Seemingly acceptable iptables rule blocking NIS (ypbind) from operating
I am not an iptables expert.
I have a use case to block all outgoing traffic that does not destined for either 10.0.0.0/8 or 167.114.0.0/16. I have two NIS servers (10.57.132.11, 10.57.132.40). I ...
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Linux: What could be the reason for random fails in updating passwd.byuid by running yppasswd?
In order to allow NOC users in my company to manage users through NIS I've created the following script:
#!/bin/bash
# This script will simplicate NIS user management.
# You will not be able to ...
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command for list users in linux system
How can i list all the linux users when the ldap autentication is cofigured? I remember that there are one command to list the /etc/passwd files and the ldap users.
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can't change NIS account password from Centos-7 client “NIS server Centos-6”
I'm trying to change password for a NIS account from a Centos-7.0.1406 client and the server is Centos-6.6
it seems that passwd command don't ask me neither to change password nor ask me for old ...
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Why does NIS map error prevent postfix from resolving local alias?
Postfix quit sending me mail from an Ubuntu 10.04LTS server. I spent an hour to two checking /etc/aliases, running and re-running sudo newaliases and sudo postfix reload, web searches for my issue etc....
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Login using Active Directory in Linux using Kerberos 5
I have a problem with setting up auth for users on Linux (Fedora Core 15 to be exact) using Active Directory on Windows 2008 Server with installed support for UNIX systems. I've successfully setup ...
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Neglected services on old DC - how to move to new DC?
We have installed a new Server 2012.
The new server: DC3 (192.168.0.3), has been promoted, and is now our main DC (includes : DNS, DHCP)
Schema master DC3.domain
Domain naming master ...
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How to autostart `ypbind` on Ubuntu 14.04
It seems I need to use sysv-rc-conf to manage service startup/shutdown, but no scripts were added to /etc/init.d/ when I installed NIS. I would expect to either have /etc/init.d/nis or /etc/init.d/...
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Replacement for NIS/YP
The company that I am working for is embarking on replacing the current locally developed NIS/YP structure with LDAP.
We already have AD in house for the Windows stuff and would like to consider ...
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puppet nis user management
I started using puppet for managing our RHEL servers. At this point I try to setup the user management. We are running a NIS environment on our campus, so until now I added the line +testuser::::: to ...
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Create alias for UNIX username in LDAP for DB2
I want to use LDAP data for the authentication process in DB2.
I have already configured DB2 via PAM to retrieve the information of the NIS server that is in the ActiveDirectory. It works perfect ...
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Deletion of User and home directory from NFS
I have 10 systems with opensuse installed in each of them.I have created 2 servers such that one is NIS and other is NFS , i have added lets say 5 users to NIS and their corresponding home ...
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Delaying NIS & NFS startup till after network interface is fully ready on Fedora 17
I've recently set up a fedora 17 server for our network, and I've been having trouble getting the NIS service to work on startup. Here's some logs from the system:
Aug 21 12:57:12 cairnwell ypbind-...
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nobody user/group with NIS/NFS
Software overview
Machine A(NIS server): CentOS 6.2
Machine B:(NFS server) CentoS 6.2
Client machines: OpenSuse 12.3, CentOS 6.4 and CentOS 5.6
Introduction and setup
Machine A is an NIS server ...
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Strange glitch with NIS
Good day. One of the network users with the NIS account (yp and automount) has some problems: after editing network service configufation file (/etc/sysconfig/network) and rebooting (/etc/init.d/...
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How to test that DNS from NIS is working?
In my /etc/nsswitch.conf have I set
hosts: files nis dns
With
ypwhich
ypcat hosts
ypcat passwd
can I verify that passwd and group are retrieved over NIS.
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How do I verify that DNS is ...
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Trying to configure NIS on a centos client and getting error Domain not bound
I'm trying to set a host to use NIS.
I've instlled ypbind and yp-tools.
edited /etc/yp.conf:
domain mydomain.local server hostname
then edited: /etc/sysconfig/network and added:
NISDOMAIN="mydomain....
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Root denied login if networking down (on NIS/YP environment)
My 70+ hosts network (mixed CentOS, Fedora) uses NIS/YP. If networking is working OK, then no major issues occur, normally a trouble-less operation.
If connectivity is lost, either by a simple loose ...
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Enable NIS extensions (rfc2307) on Samba 4 AD after installation
I'm testing out our samba 4 migration process and when the initial forest/domain was created, it was created without using --use-rfc2307:
sudo samba-tool domain provision \
--domain ...
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Upgrading NFS/NIS Shared `/home` Setup
I am currently managing a network of workstations running different flavours of Ubuntu. The server (also Ubuntu) runs a NIS server and exports a shared /home directory over NFS (in v3 compatibility ...
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NIS client doesn't see group names
I have added a user to libvirt (id = 504) group on NIS server. On the client when I do group <user>, I get <user> groups: cannot find name for group ID 504 What should I do to get my ...