Hello, I am facing a problem while trying to configure NIS client on Rocky Linux 8.6 (minimal installation). The same configuration works perfectly with CeNTOS 7, and I’m in the process of updating the OS of a lab to Rocky. I have followed this tutorial: CentOS 5 - NIS Server - Configuration for NIS client : Server World. Although ypbind seems to work fine, as I am getting the correct output from the commands ypwhich and ypcat passwd, when attempting to remote through ssh to NIS host, I am getting a permission denied error message. I am suspicious about the contents of the /etc/nsswitch.conf file and also whether this file is replaced by the /etc/authselect/nsswitch.conf. I would appreciate any help. Thank you in advance!
I have been running into the same issue (permission denied). I was able to remedy the issue. When you do a ypcat passwd are your passwords in clear text, mine were. I had to reset the passwords with yppasswd, but I had to tell yppasswd to hash the password.
Verify the password is in plain txt
ypcat passwd
Set environment variable to use the hashing
export YP_PASSWD_HASH=SHA-512
verify variable is set
echo $YP_PASSWD_HASH
Reset password
passwd user_name
Verify the password is hashed
ypcat passwd
try login again
Good Luck!
Jrod
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I am in process of migrating my environment from centos to Rocky so i am testing the NIS configuration, all configuration related to NIS has been verified twice, but still can’t login through NIS user on NIS client machine. strange thing is I can check all configuration looks good. I can run all other commands such as
#ypcat passwd
#ypwhich
#ypdomainname
but can’t login through those NIS users, also can’t see NIS user details through “id nis_userID” command.