Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick
> Both the server and the client machines have libc5 version 5.4.23-4 and > libc6 version 2.0.3-4. Let me give you an example of what's happening on > the client machine: > > ~> ypmatch rover passwd > rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash > ~> su rover > su: user rover does not ex

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Jim Pick
> > ~> ypmatch rover passwd > > rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash > > ~> su rover > > su: user rover does not exist > 'su' doesn't work, but 'login' does. Ok, I tested it and the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-2 works, but the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-4 doesn't (from unstable).

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-14 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Jim Pick wrote: > > > > ~> ypmatch rover passwd > > > rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash > > > ~> su rover > > > su: user rover does not exist > > > 'su' doesn't work, but 'login' does. > > Ok, I tested it and the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-2 works, > but the 'su' from shellutil

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Both the server and the client machines have libc5 version 5.4.23-4 and libc6 version 2.0.3-4. Let me give you an example of what's happening on the client machine: ~> ypmatch rover passwd rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash ~> su rover su: user rover does not exist However, t

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 05:14 PM 1/06/97 -0700, Jim Pick wrote: >It works here. > >I'm not sure what your problem is. What version of libc5 are you using? I think he's right Jim - I did a fresh install, made sure I was using the latest versions of libc and the like and I can't setup a _slave NIS server_. I can howev

Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
> Does anybody have a NIS installation running ok with Debian 1.3? I would > appreciate if any one can help me figure out what's going on. It works here. I'm not sure what your problem is. What version of libc5 are you using? Cheers, - Jim pgp6heaSQqBd4.pgp Description: PGP signature

NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!

1997-06-01 Thread Pedro I. Sanchez
Hello, I asked this once and I got no answers. I know there's at least one more person in this list with the same problem but we've been unable to solve it. The problem: With the lattest versions (unstable) of everything, the NIS clients are unable to read the maps from the NIS server. No errors