From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 3 13:27:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33AF159D2 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Received: from [140.228.15.35] (asterion.onu.edu [140.228.15.35]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02728; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:27:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 16:31:29 -0400 To: Andreas Kreuzinger From: Robert Beer Subject: Re: authentication for nis-user fails, only local user can login Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:06 PM -0400 6/3/1999, Andreas Kreuzinger wrote: >Any other hints? Well, you need the nis domainname set and verified. You can see which NIS server you are bound to with ypwhich and you can test the communication with ypcat and ypmatch. If this stuff fails look at the /var/yp/Makefile on the NIS server. Additionally, as root try using su to become an nis user. See if that produces any useful error messages. --- Bob Beer Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message