Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:27:52 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS gods angry Message-ID: <20021107202751.GB44158@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20021107142617.L16192-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> References: <20021107142617.L16192-100000@serv1.wallnet.com>
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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
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