Wesley J Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > Latest up-to-date cooker: I get this message from msec whenever it's > cron-job runs: > > msec: unable to run chage: chage: unknown user: wjl > > Repeated for every user that is not in the local passwd files, but is in > the NIS passwd map. > > I recently started using NIS on some of my cooker machines, so I'm not > sure if this warning message appears if you select NIS during > install--I just installed ypbind and pointed /etc/yp.conf to the right > place.
msec doesn't use yp maps to find the users but /etc/shadow. Are you sure the user isn't in /etc/shadow ? -- Fred - May the source be with you
