In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bristow Paul-BPB007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > I've recently installed debian on a spare PC at work and I'm having >real problems getting NIS to work properly with groups. I'd appreciate >any advice on the following problem. >After installation I set up NIS using the nsswitch.conf file, the >relevant lines are as follows. > >passwd: files nis >shadow: files >group: files nis > >After doing this I was unable to log in as root! Whenever I tried I got >an error message >initgroups invalid argument
Sounds like there is a (syntax?) error in the NIS groups map. Use 'ypcat groups' and see if you can find something obvious. Maybe you have groups with gids > 65535? That isn't supported by Linux unless you install a 2.4 kernel and glibc >= 2.2. Mike. -- Move sig.
