Re: NIS/Apache/Password Synchronization Issue

[Joe Orton <jorton redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:25:35PM -0400, Dozier, Jr., Ken wrote:
> I have written a LAMP(PHP)-based web app for my employer, but I am
> having authentication problems that I think may be NIS and/or Apache
> related.  Everyone with a valid account on our network should be able to
> auth with no problem; however, not everyone is able to do so.  I was
> able to login with my old password; but after I changed it, the app
> won't authenticate me with the new one.  The weird thing is that it will
> log me in if I use my previous password.  Also, the web server is RHEL 3
> and has no problem logging me in at the console with my new password.

Have you checked whether the yp_match() function is actually returning
the old password?  Do you have nscd running (it does sound like a
caching issue)?  Does running "ypcat -k passwd.byname" give the same
results on the server as the PHP script?

Regards,

joe