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ypcat shows results but ypmatch doesn't

Created by dave. Last edited by dave, 10 years and 245 days ago. Viewed 4,747 times. #1
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Problem

I'm creating a new user in NIS. However I can't use it. For example:

[root@fia home]# ypcat auto.home | grep glean
stimpy:/vol/vol1/home/glean
[root@fia home]# ypmatch glean auto.home
Can't match key glean in map auto.home. Reason: No such key in map

Also possibly relevant:

[root@fia home]# yppasswd glean
Unknown error
yppasswd: unknown user (uid=0).

Solution

I made two changes which might be relevant:

  • add 127.0.0.1 to /var/yp/securenets
255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1
  • turn off file handle caching in /etc/ypserv.conf
# How many map file handles should be cached ?
files: 0

Things are much better behaved now.

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