SUMMARY: nscd and local account login

From: Sridhar <ssridhar_at_raven.pnu.com>
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 14:22:55 EDT
thanks to all those who responded. I received 3 suggestions

1) get rid of nscd, it doesn't serve any purpose.
2) install latest set of patches to Solaris8 which has fix for the problem
3) make the Solaris machine an NIS slave serving only itself.

I am going to follow (1) for now and see if it works.
thanks again
SS
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Sridhar
  To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
  Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:33 AM
  Subject: nscd and local account login


  This SUN E-450 (solaris8) is an NIS client. The other day we took down the
NIS server (a DEC Alpha machine) for maintenance. When the Alpha machine came
up something went wrong and a cron job (owned by oracle, a local account)
didn't run on the SUN machine. Next morning we tried logging in as oracle and
couldn't - note oracle is NOT an NIS account. Logged in as root and found in
'top', nscd taking up a full CPU. We stopped and started it and everything was
back to normal. Note that we use NIS only for user logins and use DNS for name
lookup (I modified just the passwd line in nsswitch.dns as "passwd files nis"
and made it nsswitch.conf). I would like to prevent this from happening in
future - any ideas?

  thanks
  SS
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