NFS Services Administrator's Guide

NIS+ Error Messages
Appendix A 363
authdes_refresh: unable to synch up w/server
The client/server clock synchronization has failed. This could be caused
by the rpcbind process on the server not responding. Use ps -ef on the
server to see if rpcbind is running. If it is not, restart it. If this error
message is followed by any timestamp-related message, then you need to
use date to manually resync the client clock to the server clock.
authdes_seccreate: keyserv is unable to generate session key
This indicates that keyserv was unable to generate a random DES key
for this session. This requires some action on your part:
• Check to make sure that keyserv is running properly. If it is not,
restart it along with all other long-running processes, like
automount, rpc.nisd, and sendmail, that use secure RPC or make
NIS+ calls. Then do a keylogin.
•If keyserv is up and running properly, restart the process that
logged this error.
authdes_seccreate: no public key found for servername
The client side cannot get a DES credential for the server named
servername. This requires some action on your part:
• Check to make sure that servername has DES credentials. If it does
not, create them.
•Check the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to see which name service is
specified, and then make sure that service is responding. If it is not
responding, restart it.
authdes_seccreate: out of memory
See “If You Have Insufficient Memory or Disk Space” on page 321.
authdes_seccreate: unable to gen conversation key
The keyserv process was unable to generate a random DES key. The
most likely cause is that the keyserv process is down or otherwise not
responding. Use ps -ef to check whether the keyserv process is
running on the keyserv host. If it is not, then start it and then run
keylogin.