Re: informix with NIS

Posted in 1997

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Security, Permissions & Auditing, Platform-Specific Issues

Troy Muller — Sat, 1 Mar 1997 16:44:00 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

This is a problem with all unix informix ports as far as I know. NIS is unusable, unless you find a way around Informix's calls to the standard user and passwd calls. Troy Chao Y. Din wrote: > > Mahesh Ramachandran wrote: > > > > We recently converted a HP 9000 series 800 machine running hp-ux 9.04 > > to an NIS client, rather than get passwords from /etc/passwd. The machine > > also runs an informix server (v7.11). > ... > > > > So what am i looking at ... something buggy with NIS on hpux9.04 or doesn't > > informix know how to look at NIS? (users are included through NIS using > > netgroups) > > We set up NIS (actually NIS+) on Sun Solaris 2.5 several months ago. > Informix is calling the standard Unix get user and get password > subroutines. It does not care how the underlining OS authenticate user > accounts and passwords. It cannot be Informix problem. > > We started by copying existing user accounts to NIS and then got into > trouble, because local server using different UIDs from what the NIS > master is using. After trying to make them in-sync for a while, we gave > up and drop all the end users from local /etc/passwd. Only developers > are in local /etc/passwd. > > We are not using HP but you can check with the person who installed NIS: > what is the full name of an NIS account. Is the domain name part of the > full account name? Has the local domain name been set up? Can you > telnet to local server as an NIS user? > > Good luck. > > Chao -- ================================================================= Linux Activist--------------------------------Windows De-activist Troy Muller E-mail: tmuller@agora.rdrop.com Snail-Mail: Why even bother? Voice-Mail: 332-???? (you think I'd tell you?) WWW home page: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~tmuller Linux Activist--------------------------------Windows De-activist ================================================================= -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAi4Qgy0AAAEEAL4v32jjIKAD4Vxp0T2E7xst7kFBS45EWBs464bCiH4NOdq3 yqWWrEgM6Fm6jp3Nux7r6BbWK8Tg8xNEEdkCvk9rSu5tHi5lB4aFRGyEBESoCOSo en9ilmkhaFVWp/ZIZaxfH/u22HC34NhlMg4YOgKJot5Fizx++4Tax57aPU7FAAUR tCVUcm95IFMuIE11bGxlciA8dG11bGxlckBlZWNzLndzdS5lZHU+ =FuD0 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----