In the last episode (Nov 07), Tim Kellers said:
> I'm using NFS to mount /usr/home from the server on the client
> machine. All the accounts on the server have their home directories
> in /usr/home ypcat passwd returns the passwd list, ypwhich returns
> the master server name, chpass (usernameon server) returns the
> correct user's master.passwd entry.
>
> I've placed the correct punctuation at the bottom of the edited
> master.passwd file and in the /etc/group file.
>
> But....
>
> None of my NIS server users can login on the client machine.
>
> For example:
>
> > su -l zooba
> su: unknown login: zooba
>
> And zooba is a valid login name/account on the NIS master.
Definitely sounds like a problem with the + line in the passwd file.
Run vipw, and verify that
+:::::::::
is at the bottom. If it still doesn't work, try truss'ing "id -u
zoomba" and verify that it's reading the NIS files and doing network
calls.
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Dan Nelson
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