I'm trying to use NIS for authentication on a st of machines. I had to change one of the user ID numbers for a user account on the NIS server (I changed the userid for username from 500 to 509 to avoid a conflict with a local user account with id 500 on the clients). The problem is that it has not updated properly on the client. In par...
Hello, i have a working solaris 10 server with ssh and NIS using the following configuration: # /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: files nis group: files nis and # /etc/ssh/sshd_config Protocol 2 Port 22 ListenAddress :: AllowTcpForwarding no GatewayPorts no X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 X11UseLocalhost yes PrintMo...
I found your article using Apache Auth with gitweb, gitosis. I was wondering if there was a way to do this if I wasn't using LDAP for authentication. We currently have a very large NIS domain which we use for authentication on all unix servers. We use this for SVN repositories through a UI, but for this case I am trying to meet a requir...
I have NIS server with user "techsupport", which has uid/gid = 517 I've configured NIS and NFS on that server, as well as NFS/NIS client on the remote web server. Now I need to techsupport user to be able to login to web server using techsupport username, but HAVE root privileges. I need this, so I can easily track, which support agen...