Re: UID defined on an NIS server.

[Roland Roberts <roland astrofoto org>]

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian King <king eiffel com> writes:

    Ian> Actually this is not my system but a relay of bug reports
    Ian> from various people using linux EiffelVision 2.  Under what
    Ian> circumstances should this fail?  I presumed that both bug
    Ian> submitters were using NIS but actually it is only one that
    Ian> seems to be, how could this possibly fail anyway?  If a user
    Ian> manages to login and is assigned a UID, then surely
    Ian> getpwuid_r will never fail?

Does syslog (or anything else) show any RPC timeouts?  Perhaps the NIS
server is too busy.  I have seen this on a pure Linux network.

I have also had an Oracle signon fail in a similar fashion on a pure
HP-UX network even though the application was already running under
the same UID.  The only "cure" was to retry the login.

roland
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