[Grml] adduser and RPC Connection
Michael Prokop
mika at grml.org
Mon Jul 17 20:23:49 CEST 2006
* T <mlist4suntong at yahoo.com> [20060717 18:15]:
> whenever I add a user in grml, I get the following error:
> rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
> rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
> rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC: Remote system error - Connection refused
> 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.
regards,
-mika-
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