ypset not allowed?

[david at eng.sun.com]

In article <6626 at brazos.Rice.edu> gnb at melba.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
|X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 110, message 14
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|We have just updated to SunOs 4.0.3, and have come across some problems
|with YP.  I presume it has to do with the increased security of YP in this
|release.  I have not installed the "Security" install stuff, so we don't
|use authenticated RPC etc etc.  Our YP master is a 3.5 machine.
|
|When I try to run ypset (which we need to do, as clients have a habit of
|binding to machines on the other end of a MAC bridge, overloading the link
|in the middle), I get an error message:
|
|  Sorry, I couldn't send my rpc message to ypbind on host wran.

"Documented in 4.1"

In order to be able to do a ypset from any machine you need to start
ypbind with the -ypset option.  If you only need to be able to ypset on
the machine itself use -ypsetme instead.

David DiGiacomo, Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA  david at eng.sun.com