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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:37:44 -0800
From: Mark Hannon <epamha@epa.ericsson.se>
Organization: Ericsson Australia
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Subject: yp & unknown user
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Hi,

I reinstalled my FreeBSD client machine last night with 2.2-GAMMA 
(after a harddisk crash & replacement harddisk).

I copied all my backed up /etc files that I had previously used
on this machine.  These included a working setup for NIS client.
Passwd & Group are distributed from the ypserver.

The wierd thing is that now I can login with my normal userid and
things seem to be OK.  The id command returns my uid & gids.  A
"ypcat passwd" prints out the passwd file from the server, so far
so good.

BUT....

(1) Attempts to start pine fail.  I get an error message saying that
    pine doesn't know who I am and that attempts to read my login name
    failed.
(2) Commands of the form: cd ~mark fail with 'Unkown user'.
(3) My CDE login fails with unkown user.
(4) I attempted to stop the ypserv daemon on the server and restart
    with -debug but then all client calls timeout.

Anybody have any ideas on what I can have missed???

Regards/Mark

PS Pls CC replies to mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au, I'm not sure if I will
   get the chance to read email at work again today.