[OpenAFS-port-darwin] NIS accounts and LoginWindow PlugIn

[Joseph Jackson]

The "lookupd -d" command may be useful here. Use the command "UserWithName" 
for a few usernames and see what's different about the NIS users. From the 
error messages, it sounds like the numeric user-id is missing, but that 
would be hard to believe.

If you haven't seen this web site, it might be helpful to you:
<http://www.bresink.de/osx/nis.html>

You can also post a message on the discussion forums hosted at 
<http://macosxlabs.org/>. I believe there are a few admins who use NIS 
registered there.

Joe Jackson,
Carnegie Mellon University.

--On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:02 AM +0200 Eric Knauel 
<knauel@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has tried using the LoginWindow PlugIn in
> connection with NIS accounts? Users that have a "local" account (there
> is an entry for this user in the NetInfo database) can login using
> LoginWindow and get their tokens. However, if a user is not "local",
> but has a NIS entry LoginWindow fails and drops to the console
> login. /var/log/system.log looks like this:
>
> Jul 16 09:21:42 robinson loginwindow[355]: AuthorizationRef doesn't have
> a userID  Jul 16 09:21:42 robinson loginwindow[355]: exiting to console
> Jul 16 09:21:42 robinson WindowServer[191]: loginwindow connection
> closed; closing server. Jul 16 09:21:42 robinson
> /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAge
> nt: (ipc/send) invalid destination port : CGSFlushWindowContentRegion:
> flush failed
>
> All users, local and NIS users, can login via SSH. So it seems to me
> that there is a problem with LoginWindow or the PlugIn. The
> lookupd.conf entry for users looks like this:
>
> {
> "name" = ( "users" );
> "LookupOrder" = ( "CacheAgent", "NIAgent", "YPAgent" );
> },
>
> Why is it a problem for LoginWindow oder the PlugIn if there is no
> local account data? Why does it say that there's is a userID missing?
>
> -Eric
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