2cents, cause I could get idmap'ing to work yesterday. I looked in all
the wrong places. I had a dup ipaddress in the subnet and idmap would
just show nobody for everyone. Doesnt sound like your problem. I uses
nis a while ago also and know nsswitch.conf or some such can change
the lookup ordering, could be a easy way to test using /etc/passwd vs
nis.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> Ahh....
>
> One thing that just popped into my mind.....  Again, recall that NIS is not 
> in my
> memory.....
>
> When you run NIS do you have user names and groups and such defined only in 
> NIS
> databases?  I mean, isn't the passwd files basically where only system users 
> are defined?
>
> What were to happen if you had a situation where a uid was defined in passwd 
> and in
> the NIS maps and a conflict existed?
>
> Possible?
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