NIS Redhat master to Solaris NIS slave problem with passwd.adjunct.byname file

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Issue

  • When trying to set up a NIS slave on Solaris, using 
ypinit -s

or

ypxfer

all of the maps are transferred except passwd.adjunct.byname.

  • This issue is caused due to this line in the /etc/ypserv.conf file on Redhat
    master NIS server:
*                          : *       : passwd.adjunct.byname : port
  • If this is changed to:
*                          : *       : passwd.adjunct.byname : none

The ypxfr will happen and yppush then works from the Redhat master to
the Solaris slave.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
  • ypserv-2.19-22.el6.x86_64

  • yp-tools-2.9-12.el6.x86_64

  • Solaris 5.8 machine that is a NIS slave with a RHEL NIS server.

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