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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:16:10 -0400
From:      "Robin P. Blanchard" <Robin.Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
To:        <deischen@freebsd.org>, <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Help diagnosing NIS breakage ?
Message-ID:  <EE3D3FBAFFCAED448C21C398FDAD91AC2374A3@EBE1.gc.nat>

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In our implementation, the NIS server is ActiveDirectory with =
ServicesForUnix
3.0 :)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Eischen [mailto:eischen@vigrid.com]=20
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:13 PM
> To: Robin P. Blanchard
> Cc: John De Boskey; current@freebsd.org; Jacques A. Vidrine
> Subject: RE: Help diagnosing NIS breakage ?
>=20
>=20
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:
>=20
> > That did it....
> >=20
> > Using latest -CURRENT sources, but backing out to=20
> > src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c,v 1.81 gets NIS clients working again.=20
> > Re-sync this in CVS ?
>=20
> The change (rev 1.82) to getpwent.c allows FreeBSD NIS=20
> clients to work with Solaris NIS+ servers running in YP=20
> compatibility mode.  Without the change, FreeBSD clients in=20
> such an environment can't log in.
>=20
> I think this is exposing a bug in our NIS implementation,
> but don't know enough about it to be sure.  I think backing
> it out just hides the bug again.  As a work-around, we
> could try yp_order first, and if that fails, try yp_master.
>=20
> --=20
> Dan Eischen
>=20
>=20



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