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nis package

  1. Bug #47815
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 47815

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Mark Brown (broonie) wrote :

What architecture is the NIS server? The NIS server must be a Linux server running on an incompatible architecture (eg, i386).

The problem is that NIS attempts to transfer the map by copying the architecture dependant database file verbatim rather than transferring the keys individually. It may be important that the server is running an older version of the NIS server - I'm not aware of any workaround there, though.

YP_SECURE should be irrelevant, I was doing all my testing with the passwd.byname map IIRC.