Re: NIS and /etc/group

1999-05-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Take a look at /var/yp/Makefile on your NIS server. There's a variable in there: MINGID=??? Which defines the group id below which entries will be ignored. The dialout group is 20 and this is probably lower than the MINGID in /var/yp/Makefile. You can change MINGID and re-make or create a new g

NIS and /etc/group

1999-05-19 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I've just set up NIS on a small group of Debian machines with one NIS server and the rest as clients. Everything seems to be working fine, with one small exception. Most of the users need to be able to use minicom or kermit to connect as a dumb terminal to some devices in our lab and so I've added