NFS Services Administrator's Guide

NIS+ Error Messages
Appendix A392
• The server principal (host) does not have credentials. Run nismatch
hostname.domainname.cred.org_dir on the client’s home domain
cred table. Create new credentials if necessary.
• keyserv may have been restarted, in which case certain
long-running applications, such as rpc.nisd, sendmail, and
automount, also need to be restarted.
• DES encryption failure. Call your HP support contact.
_svcauth_des: no public key for principal-name
The server cannot get the client’s public key. Possible causes are as
follows:
• The principal has no public key. Run niscat on the cred table of the
principal’s home domain. If there is no DES credential in that table
for the principal, use nisaddcred to create one, and then run
keylogin for that principal.
• The name service specified by the /etc/nsswitch.conf file is not
responding.
_svcauth_des: replayed credential from principal-name
The server has received a request and finds an entry in its cache for the
same client name and conversation key with the time stamp of the
incoming request before that of the one currently stored in the cache.
The severity of this message depends on what level of security you are
running. At a low security level, this message is primarily for your
information. At a higher level, you may have to take corrective action as
described below.
Possible causes are as follows:
• The client and server clocks are out of sync. Use date to resync the
client clock to the server clock.
• The server is receiving requests in random order. This could occur if
you are using multithreading applications. If your applications
support TCP, then set /etc/netconfig (or your NETPATH
environment variable) to tcp.