[ILUG] ypserv question

[Conor Wynne]

> On Wednesday 14 July 2004, weeboy at conorwynne.com (Conor Wynne) wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>When changing a password with yppasswd it takes some time to deploy this
>>change to the AIX-Clients, which means that you can`t log in with your
>> new
>>password "immediately" after changing it.
>
> Is yppasswd running on the YP server ? I have seen installations where
> yppasswdd was NOT running and instead there was a cronjob running very
> often
> to rebuild the maps, so on average a change would take 1/2 x (cronjob
> interval) to be "deployed".
>
> Another possible culprit is nscd - check how it's set up.
>
> Are there multiple YP servers ? If not, then there is no deploying
> involved
> and the clients will see a change as soon as the map has been rebuilt on
> the
> server, so you need to see why the maps aren't immediately rebuilt (and of
> course, the caveat here is that I'm assuming nscd is not getting in the
> way).
>
>
> Niall

AIX was caching as other *NIX clients were responding immediately.

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Conor Wynne
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