Illegal Object Problems

Symptoms

• "Illegal object type" for operation message

• Other “object problem” error messages

There are a number of possible causes for this error message:

• You have attempted to create a table without any searchable columns.

• A database operation has returned the status of DB_BADOBJECT (see the nis_db man page for information on the db error codes).

• You are trying to add or modify a database object with a length of zero.

• You attempted to add an object without an owner.

• The operation expected a directory object, and the object you named was not a directory object.

• You attempted to link a directory to a LINK object.

• You attempted to link a table entry.

• An object that was not a group object was passed to the nisgrpadm command.

• An operation on a group object was expected, but the type of object specified was not a group object.

• An operation on a table object was expected, but the object specified was not a table object.