Network authentication using NIS fails
In our office we have a Linux server which we have been authenticating against using NIS for some years (certainly using 10.5 and 10.6). Since installing 10.7, we can no longer authenticate so logins fail.
When I use Directory Utility, it seems to be able to contact the NIS server and can list out the various maps that it can see there (eg, hosts, mounts, passwd). Using dscl, I can navigate to /NIS/object-craft.com.au/Users/bgg and my user details are all listed there correctly. This makes me believe that the NIS connection between my machine and the server is working correctly. Further to this, the automounts served from the server work perfectly.
The problem only seems to occur when I try logging in. There's a yellow alert next to the username on the login panel saying that only some network accounts are accessible.
When I try to login, in /var/log/opendirectoryd.log sees lines like:
2011-07-22 19:56:23.449 EST - failed to get YP map list
This appears to come from the file /System/Library/OpenDirectory/Modules/nis.bundle/Contents/MacOS/nis. That leads me to think that OpenDirectory isn't being updated correctly with the NIS server's address. I don't know what the mechanism is that makes that work. I've tried using odutil but that hasn't proved very useful.
Does anyone know how to get this working? I'm really stumped.
Thanks,
Ben.
