From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 7 12:27:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645E937B404 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:27:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C512843E75 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:27:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gA7KRqtP072751; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:27:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:27:52 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Tim Kellers Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS gods angry Message-ID: <20021107202751.GB44158@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021107142617.L16192-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021107142617.L16192-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 07), Tim Kellers said: > I'm using NFS to mount /usr/home from the server on the client > machine. All the accounts on the server have their home directories > in /usr/home ypcat passwd returns the passwd list, ypwhich returns > the master server name, chpass (usernameon server) returns the > correct user's master.passwd entry. > > I've placed the correct punctuation at the bottom of the edited > master.passwd file and in the /etc/group file. > > But.... > > None of my NIS server users can login on the client machine. > > For example: > > > su -l zooba > su: unknown login: zooba > > And zooba is a valid login name/account on the NIS master. Definitely sounds like a problem with the + line in the passwd file. Run vipw, and verify that +::::::::: is at the bottom. If it still doesn't work, try truss'ing "id -u zoomba" and verify that it's reading the NIS files and doing network calls. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message