Strange pbm with NIS in RH7.3 while doing rsh

[JSiva]

Hi all,

I just solved one pbm in NIS setup of RH7.3 and here is the another pbm.

1.I have one RH7.3 Linux NIS server and name it NIS_SRV
2.I have say 10 NIS RH7.3 Client machines called NIS_CLI1-10
3.I have a NIS user called "siva" with home dir " /home/siva"

And following is the pbm description:-

1. I am logging in at NIS_CLI1 as user "siva" and do "rsh NIS_SRV pwd", I am getting the correct result "/home/siva"

2. But from the same machine NIS_CLI1, if I do "rsh NIS_CLI2 (to any client) pwd" . I am getting the result "/" but not the home directory.

That means any machine other than NIS server, the rsh is not taking the home dir. From a client machine if I say "rsh NIS_CLI3 "cd;ls" it properly goes to home dir and lists the contents.

But if I do "rsh NIS_SRV ls" it correctly lists the home dir contents without a "cd" command.

I have a network of AIX also and it is working fine in AIX.

Any solution will be appreciated.

JSiva -------------------------------------
jsknair@yahoo.com
PSI Data Systems Limited
Bangalore - 560025

 

[JSiva]

Hi all,

Atlast I was able to solve the problem said above. It was a permission problem. I find this when did rsh in debugging mode.

In liunx while creating the user, a group of the same name is also created and the home dir will not have the permission for group.

So after giving r+x permission to home dir for group, the above said problem is solved.

I hope this will help somebody.

Thanks

JSiva -------------------------------------
jsknair@yahoo.com
PSI Data Systems Limited
Bangalore - 560025