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From: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg  x7-4534)
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To: sassan@locus.com
Subject: Re: NIS/YP
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Sassan,

I am no expert in this area, but I've done some digging.  I think
the login is doing a getpwent() call which is using NIS, but there
is a segmentation fault somewhere in that call which causes a core
dump.

I get core files for login, su, & ls when any of these programs
need to reference the NIS maps. 

At first I thought I was because I had not installed 4/12 SNAP
correctly and still had a mixed bag of R2.0 and SNAP code on the
systems.  Well I reinstalled everything, taking no shortcuts, and
still have the same problems.

I figure most of the experts are busy with getting 2.0.5 out the 
door.  Someone must have this stuff working so my guess is I'm
doing something silly when setting it up.  I plan on getting the
2.0.5 release and setting aside enough disk space so I can 
debug this one myself.  I gotta pry that extra 400M disk off
my wife's MS-DOS machine ;).

I'll let you know if I have any luck.  I posted this back to the
questions list so anyone with more info can respond.

Derek
laufen@sol.med.ge.com


> 
> 
> 
> Derek,
> 
> I saw you name in the BSD e-mail archive.  I'm having posting problems 
> and can't post this as a general question, but it looks like you have come 
> across the same problem I have with BSD and NIS. I'm trying to setup a BSD 
> 2.0 system as an NIS client. I think I've done all the right things: 
> Set domainname, added a + entry in the password file and run ypbind. 
> It certainly sees my NIS server and I can even do ypcat's and a ypwhich, 
> but it still ignores the NIS passwd map and doesn't allow any log ins. 
> I don't think the login process is even quering the server since the 
> "Password:" prompt seems to come back immediately after I type in the 
> username.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sassan
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sassan Behzadi
> sassan@locus.com
> 
> 
>