On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:16, Ben Hall wrote: > I'm using RH9 to connect to an existing NIS server (on Solaris.) I had > problems connecting to the server when RH's firewall (iptables) was > running. Try turning that off. > > (PS: Your HTML mail gave _VERY_ small fonts on my copy of Evolution, I > could barely read your message.) > > On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 21:15, Zhou, Rongx wrote: > > Hi, all > > > > I recently setup NISenvironment in linux boxes. I use Redhat > > 9.0. I think the environment set up properly with a NIS master , a NIS > > slave and a NISclient. From the NIS client machine I type the ypcat > > passwd, I can see the newly added user accounts. But I can’t log in > > using this testing account through ssh. Can anyone give me advice? > > Thanks a lot.
Since he can do ypcat and see the result the problem is not iptables; if it were then ypcat would fail, too. The likely problem is our good friend /etc/nsswitch.conf. Make sure that the passwd line included nis, i.e., it looks something like passwd: files nis If not, then make the appropriate change. If nsswitch.conf is correct, then we need to start looking at the scope and asking some questions. Can you connect and login to a local (in /etc/passwd) accout? If not, the problem is more global than nis. But lets start with the switch file. - rick warner -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
