Thanks but I don't think there's a problem with the group map as it's working
with a lot of other machines (hp-ux/solaris/mandrake). I did the "ypcat group"
as you suggested on a working machine and it all looked normal. When I did the
same thing on the debian machine I got the same thing back, the group map from
the nis server! Given that my group line is "group: files" surely this
shouldn't be happening?
I checked the gids as well and there all very low numbers. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Paul Bristow.
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Sent: 04 October 2001 12:04
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: NIS and initgroups
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.
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