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Re: NIS+netgroups and RedHat 5.2



Ariel Biener writes:

 > >  >  I am having problems convincing RedHat 5.2 to behave the way all other
 > >  > Unix machines behave, when NIS is concerned.
 > > 
 > > I had the exact same problem in college a couple of months ago. What's
 > > the OS of the NIS server? Is it SunOS by any chance?
 > 
 > The NIS master is SunOS. I am bound against one of the NIS slaves, Solaris
 > 2.6.

Wonderful. When I stumbled against that problem, I went to search
DejaNews, and found someone asking the exact same question. There was
no good answer on DejaNews though, so I e-mailed the guy who asked the 
question and asked him whether he solved the problem somehow. He did,
and the solution is a slight modification and rebuild of a tiny part
of glibc, namely libnss_nis.so. Here's what he wrote me:


Hello Alex,

yes, I got the problem solved by Thomas Kukuk, a Linux-NIS-Guru. 
There are 3 errors in the glibc2 NIS-Source.

The fix is easy and simple: In libc/nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c
you have to change all 3 appearences of
encrypted != NULL 
inside an if-clause to
encrypted == NULL .

Maybe You have a version, where 2 of them are already fixed.
In the newer versions of glibc2 this problem should already be fixed.

We don't have the problem with the Linux-NIS-client anymore.

Perhaps You can give me a note, if it works for You, too.

Greetings
Thomas
 
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