From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 3 20:50:43 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 1F90837B401 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:50:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from amor.yuckfou.org (cust.89.117.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.89.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B91C43E42 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:50:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nivo+freebsd-questions@yuckfou.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.yuckfou.org [127.0.0.1]) by amor.yuckfou.org (Yuckfou Networks) with ESMTP id 5B7D9BA16 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 05:50:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by amor.yuckfou.org (Yuckfou Networks, from userid 500) id DC694BA14; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 05:50:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 05:50:27 +0100 From: Nils Vogels To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS.wheel group oddity Message-ID: <20021104045027.GA412@amor.yuckfou.org> Reply-To: Nils Vogels Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Yuckfou Networks -- Internet with a smile! X-PGP-key: finger://nivo.pgpkey@yuckfou.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: B43C 1EFB 1DD3 4D7E 7D49 8036 401F BE41 C26B D15F X-Echelon-trap: Arafat, bomb, hezbollah, terrorist, gun, FBI, CIA, FCC, murder, kill X-Stardate: [-30]9325.98 X-Uptime: 5:43AM up 3:48, 10 users, load averages: 1.78, 1.80, 1.66 X-Virus-Scanned: yes 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 Hi guys, I'm setting up a NIS environment, and I'm having trouble adding a NIS account into the wheel group. The NIS client, simply won't allow the user, that is in the NIS group map as being in 'wheel' to use the su command, because 'su' thinks the user is not in the wheel group: --[ begin paste ]-- Welcome to FreeBSD! > id uid=500(user) gid=500(user) groups=500(user), 0(wheel) > su su: you are not in the correct group (wheel) to su root. > ypcat group user:*:500: wheel:*:0:root,user > ypcat passwd user:*:500:500:The User:/home/user:/bin/tcsh --[ end paste ]-- I'm drawing a blank, this should all work as far as I can see, especially since ypbind is running, and the following imports are at the end of the local passwd/group: passwd: +@EUFORIA:*::::: +:*:::::/sbin/nologin group: +:*:: It's probably something stupid I'm overlooking .. could you guys give me a hand ? :) Gr, -- Nils Vogels PGP:0xC26BD15F Available on keyservers. S@H:6098WU/8.140yr --> setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu. Will you find aliens? Sometimes you can do everything right, and still lose -JL Picard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message