On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:42:53AM -0800, W. J. Williams wrote:
> hi hope someone knows the answer to this riddle...I am trying to get NIS
> up and running.
>
> 1. one master, no slave...domain name is lab-nis-domain
> 2. Master rc.conf file contains enabling commands to start nis server as
> well as nis_yppasswdd. The build of the /var/yp/lab-nis-domain indicated
> "built with no errors"
>
> 3. client machine rc.confs contain domain name, nis_client_enable,
> rpcbind_enable.
>
> 4. when I run ypcat passwd from any client machine I get a list of avail
> passwords from the master domain... all looked good...
>
> 5. created a new user on master, ran make lab-nis-domain and it said
> "domain already current"...so I copied the updated master.passwd file to
> /var/yp and ran make again...still same message.
How & where did you create the new user on the master?
The user should not exist in the client machine master.passwd.
Try adding a test user with: pw useradd -Y -y /var/yp/master.passwd testuser
Try logging into the master with the new user. Success? Try the client.
HTH
-Mike
>
> 6. as last resort I ran ypinit -m again to rebuild the entire
> domain..then ran ypcat passwd from client machine and was able to see the
> new account.
>
> 7. MY PROBLEM: I can't log into the client machine using the new
> account...I have added the +::::::::: string to master.passwd and +:*::
> string to group file...but still no work.
>
> any ideas?
>
> Will
>
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