[RndTbl] Fedora 15/16 problems with network name services and autofs
Gilbert E. Detillieux
gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Fri Nov 18 15:56:52 CST 2011
At last week's MUUG meeting, I mentioned problems I had encountered with
Fedora 16, dealing with NIS and autofs.
The first one was that supplementary groups defined via NIS (or LDAP, as
it turns out) were being ignored (whereas those in /etc/group were not).
The solution was simply to comment out the "initgroups" map line in
the /etc/nsswitch.conf file...
Bug 750388 - Authconfig needs to handle new 'initgroups' nsswitch map
(was: secondary groups not populated)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750388
The second one was that the autofs service wasn't waiting for ypbind to
start, so there was a race condition that would cause NFS mount points
published in NIS automounter maps to be ignored. Some solutions were
proposed, which seemed to work for some but not for others, depending on
exactly how their network interfaces were managed, and what specific
services they were using...
Bug 712504 - autofs is started before ypbind in Fedora 15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712504
Bug 709637 - systemd sometimes starts autofs before NIS
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709637
This problem will hopefully work itself out as remaining legacy init.d
scripts are converted over to systemd. In the meantime, the proposed
solution (for bug 712504) _seems_ to be working for me.
--
Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil at muug.mb.ca>
Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/
PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161
Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
More information about the Roundtable
mailing list