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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 12:59:47 +0200
From: Florian Bofinger <bofax@camelot.de>
To: freebsd-questions@camelot.de, freebsd-isp@camelot.de
Subject: NIS/YP getpwnam timeout in 3.5-RELEASE?
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Hi,

since a few days, our NIS shows strange behaviour.

When calling getpwnam on a NIS client for a  valid, existing, plussed loginname
(+user:::::::::), getpwnam->pw_passwd sometimes returns the crypted password
(which is the right behaviour) but sometimes returns '*'. Is it possible, that
the ypmatch-call in getpwent.c does a timeout?

Does

	if (_yp_enabled == -1)
		_ypinitdb();
	if (_yp_enabled)
		rval = _getyppass(&_pw_passwd, name, "passwd.byname"); 

show, that if _ypinitdb() does not work, YP is not used at all?

How can it be, that getpwnam->pw_passwd returns "*" instead of
getpwnam beeing NULL?

Anyone any suggestions?

Greetings,
		Florian

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