NFS Services Administrator's Guide

NIS+ Error Messages
Appendix A 387
• There may be no entry for name in the cred table.
• NIS+ could not decrypt the key (possibly because the entry might be
corrupt).
•The /etc/nsswitch.conf file may be directing the query to a local
password in an /etc/passwd file that is different from the NIS+
password recorded in the cred table.
See “If You Have Authentication or Permissions Problems” on page 318.
Partial Success
This result is similar to NIS_NOTFOUND except that it means the request
succeeded but resolved to zero entries.
When this occurs, the server returns a copy of the table object instead of
an entry so that the client may then process the path or implement some
other local policy.
This message is generated by the NIS+ error code constant
NIS_PARTIAL. See the nis_tables(3N) man page for additional
information.
Passed object is not the same object on server
An attempt to remove an object from the namespace was aborted because
the object that would have been removed was not the same object that
was passed in the request.
This message is generated by the NIS+ error code constant
NIS_NOTSAMEOBJ. See the nis_tables(3N) and nis_names(3N) man
pages for more information.
Permission denied
Returned when you do not have the permissions required to perform the
operation you attempted. See “If You Have Authentication or
Permissions Problems” on page 318.
This message is generated by the NIS+ error code constant
NIS_PERMISSION.
Probable success
Name context: the request was successful; however, the object returned
came from an object cache, and not directly from the server. If you do not
wish to see objects from object caches, you must specify the flag
NO_CACHE when you call the lookup function.