Non-root NIS client users cannot resolve username and groupname
Issue
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Non-root NIS client users cannot resolve usernames and groupnames. NIS server shows the following errors in
/var/log/messagesat the time:Dec 14 18:59:49 hostname ypserv[9935]: refused connect from 192.168.0.88:55748 to procedure ypproc_match (domain.example.com,passwd.byuid;-1)
Dec 14 18:59:49 hostname ypserv[9935]: refused connect from 192.168.0.88:41960 to procedure ypproc_match (domain.example.com,passwd.byuid;-1)
When lookups are performed by the root user, they work fine.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- NIS server and NIS client
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