From: nugulus@netscape.net
Date: Sat Aug 06 2005 - 14:11:20 EDT
I have a few solaris 9 machines where finger doesn't work.
If I issue
finger username
I get a single line,
Login Name: username In real life: ???
If the username belong to an local account (/etc/passwd entry), it works fine. Most of my users are in the nis passwd map.
The strange thing is that I found a couple of nis users which respond normal to finger. Between the two groups of users that work and not work to the finger command, I couldn't find any difference.
Using
truss -u '*' finger username
I saw that after reading lastlog, there is a difference between two users that work and not,
Worked,
open("/var/adm/lastlog", O_RDONLY) = 4
<- libc:fopen() = 0x28bc8
-> libc:strdup(0xffbff950, 0x14010, 0x0, 0x0)
<- libc:strdup() = 0x2a970
-> libc:fseek(0x28bc8, 0x7f34, 0x0, 0x0)
lseek(4, 32564, SEEK_SET) = 32564
Not worked,
open("/var/adm/lastlog", O_RDONLY) = 4
<- libc:fopen() = 0x28bc8
-> libc:fclose(0x28bc8, 0xffbffb74, 0x24780, 0x0)
llseek(4, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
but I can't find why there is such a difference. Also this may not be the reason for the different finger output of the two kinds of users.
I need help to find why finger doesn't work for the mojority of my nis users.
Jun
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