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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: Oracle and SCO NIS: A Big No-No??
In article <83ds9h$1ja$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com> chriseli_at_my-deja.com writes:
>"Here is the issue with NIS. There are some bugs in SCO's NIS
>implementation that affects Oracle. When a user try's to log into the
>Plus system it verifies the user ID against the unix userid. In order
>for this to work the userid's and passwords need to be on the same
>system that Oracle is running on. They cannot be stored on another
>server. What this means for your setup is NIS has to be disabled on
>maple only and the userid's on the central NIS server need to be
>duplicated on maple. This will not affect any of your other systems. All
>it means is you are maintaining users in 2 different locations. As long
>as the entries are identical between the 2 systems everything is OK. The
>users and groups must have the same names and id numbers and the same
>home directory path. It will require some more work initially, but
>unfortunately this is the only work around for this problem."
I don't know SCO Unix but on Solaris and Ultrix there is a file called /etc/nsswitch.conf . If SCO supports nsswitch.conf you can configure your SCO box to lookup /etc/passwd first before checking NIS. So you can leave NIS running to support all your other stuff.
Philip
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