[rhn-users] NIS problem: Cannot find name for user ID
Clinton Fernandes
cfernand at utm.utoronto.ca
Mon May 9 18:28:18 UTC 2005
Hello fellow list users.
When I login to NIS clients I get the following message:
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id: cannot find name for user ID 511
id: cannot find name for user ID 511
[I have no name!@itchy ~]$
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I'm not sure what is causing it. Some googling suggested a missing enty in
/etc/nsswitch.conf. Mine looks like this:
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passwd: nis files
shadow: nis files
group: nis files
hosts: nis files dns
bootparams: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
services: files
netgroup: files
publickey: nisplus
automount: nis files
aliases: nis files nisplus
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I'm not sure if there's something here that I should be getting from NIS or not.
I have also noticed connection refusals in the NIS server logs. I'm not sure if
connection refusals are because of the name/uid not being mapped or if the
name/uid is not being mapped because of the refused calls (chicken or the egg?):
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May 9 10:56:42 trogdor ypserv[12744]: refused connect from 192.168.168.61:32784
to procedure ypproc_match (NISDOMAIN,passwd.byuid;-1)
May 9 10:57:34 trogdor ypserv[12744]: refused connect from 192.168.168.61:32936
to procedure ypproc_all (NISDOMAIN,passwd.byuid;-1)
May 9 10:57:51 trogdor ypserv[12744]: refused connect from 192.168.168.61:32938
to procedure ypproc_all (NISDOMAIN,passwd.byname;-1)
May 9 10:57:59 trogdor ypserv[12744]: refused connect from 192.168.168.61:32940
to procedure ypproc_all (NISDOMAIN,which;-1)
May 9 10:58:14 trogdor ypserv[12744]: refused connect from 192.168.168.61:32784
to procedure ypproc_master (NISDOMAIN,mail.aliases;-1)
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Any ideas what's going wrong and how to fix it?
Thanks very much!
Clint
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