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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news-peer.nctu.edu.tw!news.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: stale passwd problem Date: 26 Mar 1997 15:49:05 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 56 Message-ID: <5hbghh$lfk@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <5h7rvg$f07@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> <5h8rj1$o3p@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <5h9vcr$s9t@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38155 Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Scott Michel (scottm@cs.ucla.edu) had the courage to say: : Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote: : : Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Scott Michel : : (scottm@cs.ucla.edu) had the courage to say: : : : I have a NIS master server, connected to a NIS backup server, : : : serving 2.1.6 clients on a seperate subnet, viz: : : : NIS -> NIS -> client : : : master server backup server : : The master server has to push the modified maps to the slave server : : when there's an updated. To do this, you have to: : This is done already by the NIS master server (running FreeBSD). To : quote myself: : : : I've made sure that the master.passwd.* and passwd.* maps have : : : been transferred to the backup server. : In all respects, everything else (automount maps, host names, netgroups) : works correctly. : -scottm Okay: forgive me for being skeptical, how how exactly did you determine that the passwords are being propagated to the slave server? If you do a password change on a client and then ypcat the maps (as root, in the case of the master.passwd maps) on both the master and the slave, can you see the changes? Can you see the changes in both the *.byname and *.byuid maps? If the slave is being updated correctly, then the only possibilities I can think of are: - The clients are bound to a totally different server somehow and that server isn't being updated correctly. - Somebody has created entries in the local /etc/master.passwd file that override the ones in the NIS maps. Unfortunately, I can't really speculate any further without being there to investigate first hand. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "Now, that's "Open" as used in the sentence "Open your wallet", right?" =============================================================================