After a disastrous foray into LDAP I restored NIS on a very simple network run by a very simple operator.
Everything now works except for YaST on the NIS master. I can’t manage NIS users in YaST any more.
The option* ‘show NIS users’ is now absent from the ‘filter’ button up in YaST “User and Group Management”*
So, after following the YaST route to LDAP there seems no way back…
These are OpenSUSE 11.3 boxes and the slave NIS server can’t [obviously enough] delete expired NIS users on the master, although it sees them fine. Disabling or changing NIS server or client on the Master simply restores the ‘wrong’ settings - nothing is erased or cleaned.
How do I clean up NIS controls so YaST sees it properly?or**
What do I need to do to restore NIS group & user control to YaST?**
Yes it’s in - all YaST NIS stuff is installed.
The filter for NIS users does reappear if I set it to slave, but obviously it’s reading off a temporary master.
Just never when a master. And yes, it needs to be a master…
If I was to guess, it would be something missing from some conf file somewhere that is erased when opting to change from NIS to LDAP.
If it helps, the broken NIS master I was trying to recreate has two users.
I can never delete them using YaST and they reappear whenever I reset the server as a NIS master with or without a slave present.
I guess I broke it because I wanted to revert to NIS which I could manage at my skill level v learning-curve trade-off calculation which obviously is not a clever thing to do.