Re: Sparc Solaris NIS client Linux NIS server - solution

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:00:09 +0000, dogdo wrote:

> I'm cross posting this from comp.unix.solaris in hopes
> that the linux admins can help or have had similiar
> experience.
>
> Sunfire V240 Solaris 8 02/04. I've configured it as a
> nis client. I logon as root (local account). Verify that it sees
> the nis master (ypwhich), verified that it can cat the hosts file
> (ypcat hosts), verified that it can see the passwd file (ypcat
> passwd). These all work. I have also the ability to (when logged
> in as root) su - <username> and become a user (whereas the user
> is a NIS user with account information and home directory on the
> Linux NIS server). What I cant do is logon via the CDE logon
> screen. I get the "incorrect logon" error.
>
> I've ran ethereal to check the connection and the closest anomaly
> I found was that when logging on the Solaris box via CDE it is not sending
> the logon credentials to the Linux NIS server, therefore not getting a response
> back that its a valid logon. Now, this isnt the end. I also ran
> ethereal against a telnet session to the solaris box, and I did see
> it send the username over the wire to the NIS server, but again
> got an incorrect logon error.
>
> Has anyone seen this?? I'm thinking a patch or something since the
> sparc is freshly built with no patches.
>
> TIA again
> dogdog

I posted this over to the comp.unix.solaris also but wanted to
close it out here.

I had md5 passwords enabled on the linux box and the solaris box
didnt understand them. So once doing authconfig -disablemd5 it
was all good. Just reset the users. Thanks to all the suggestion
even though they didnt lead to a solution. Thanks again.
dogdog

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