JFYI:
* Michael Prokop mika@grml.org [20060717 22:09]:
- T mlist4suntong@yahoo.com [20060717 22:02]:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:23:49 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
whenever I add a user in grml, I get the following error:
rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused [...]
I've never see this before, and would like to know why adduser need to do some rpc calls/connections.
Because you might run userauth via NIS. You didn't notice this before because Debian runs portmapper by default - which grml doesn't.
Ahh, no wonder, thanks for the explanation. Any quick fix?
Start portmapper or just ignore it. Nothing to care about, it just works and does not break anything.
Still valid.
PS. I didn't touch any userauth or NIS setting after the HD installation.
Yes, that's Debian's useradd.
Not true, I meant adduser. useradd does not include/execute nis-stuff.
PPS. I don't have any package that begins with yp installed.
But something like nis/nfs/portmap/passwd. ;)
It's nis. If nis is installed, adduser is executing 'rpcinfo -p' which leads to the above mentioned "error"-message.
A bugreport against adduser (on request by Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber, one maintainer of the adduser-package at Debian, thanks for taking care, Marc) has been sent to the Debian BTS:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381923
Tip of the day: run 'debbug 381923' or 'debbugm 381923' on your grml-box. :)
Finally: grml 0.8 won't ship nis anymore, so you won't notice this warning message up from now at all.
regards, -mika-