On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:55 PM, James A. Peltier jpeltier@sfu.ca wrote:
I seem to have this very odd issue with CentOS 6 WRT NIS. I have taken the package selection that I used with CentOS 5 and basically plopped it into my C6 kickstart file (see below). On C5 this works just fine and I'm able to log in with NIS credentials just fine. However, it looks like on C6 if you use a package selection like this, you also need to specify the yp-tools package as part of the kickstart *even though* you specify an authentication method of NIS in the kickstart. Seems like a bug to me?!?
Current versions of fedora do this as well, in addition to f15 having a buggy startup script for yp*. I agree with you that if you specify auth, the tools for it should be there. That said, NIS needs to die. Quickly.