From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:19:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA15187 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:19:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dira.bris.ac.uk (dira.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA15164 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:18:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from kukini.cs.bris.ac.uk by dira.bris.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:18:48 +0000 Received: from maxx by kukini.compsci.bristol.ac.uk id aa23393; 24 Nov 96 22:18 GMT Received: from localhost by maxx.cs.bris.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA09186; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:18:30 GMT To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: broken NIS code in libc.so.2.2 Reply-To: David.Hedley@bristol.ac.uk X-Address: Computer Science Dept., University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. X-Work-Phone: +44 (117) 954 5106 X-Attribution: Dave Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:18:30 +0000 Message-ID: <9185.848873910@maxx> From: David Hedley Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, I've just upgraded my system from 2.1.0-RELEASE to 2.1.6-RELEASE (I did a complete reinstall), and I have noticed that the new C library seems to have broken NIS support. The symptoms are as follows: ypbind binds properly and I can ypcat etc no problem. Also 'ls' and friends have no problem converting UIDs to usernames via the NIS maps. However, programs like login, finger etc refuse to use NIS when looking up usernames, and hence noone in the NIS database can log in! After switching to libc.so.2.0, 'finger' worked fine (apart from the ld.so warnings about incorrect version numbers). Is there some cunning option I have to enable in 2.1.6 that I've missed, or is the code truely broken? Does anyone have a (temporary) solution? David -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK