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Mac OS X Tiger, NIS login and NFS automounter

August 8, 2006 on 9:25 am | In General Nonsense | 1 Comment

I can’t seem to find a solution to my problem on the forums or even here at Integrating Mac OS X in an NIS network so I’m going to do a little search engine trolling here. Perhaps someone else is having a similar problem.

I have a Gentoo Linux machine running NIS and NFS. I set up the mounts.byname like it says in the referenced instructions. Everything seems to work as it should; it passes all the tests. For example:

lady:~ whimmel$ ypwhich
slappy
lady:~ whimmel$ ypmatch -k whimbot passwd
whimbot whimbot:(password):1003:100::/home/whimbot:/bin/bash

I can su to one of the imported userids just fine and it mounts my home directory across the network as expected. The shell works, the files are there with the correct permissions, etc. However, when I try to login from the OS X login box, it just shakes at me. Really annoying. I even have this set properly:

With that set, Directory Access will use the NIS domain to authenticate, right? I can verify that with lookupd in debug mode:

lady:~ whimmel$ lookupd -d
lookupd version 369.5 (root 2006.02.10 04:16:23 UTC)
Enter command name, “help”, or “quit” to exit
> userWithName: whimbot
Dictionary: “DS: user whimbot”
_lookup_agent: DSAgent
_lookup_validation: 1155043714
gid: 100
home: /home/whimbot
name: whimbot
passwd: (password)
realname:
shell: /bin/bash
uid: 1003
+ Category: user
+ Time to live: 43200
+ Age: 0 (expires in 43200 seconds)
+ Negative: No
+ Cache hits: 0
+ Retain count: 3

Even here it is using the correct stuff. What have I done wrong? I’ve been over the “Integrating…” instructions several times. Ugh. I just want a single-signon across all the machines on the network.