Re: NIS Problems

2004-11-01 Thread Ernest Johanson
Hendrika, Not sure what you might have already tried but one place to check is 3 files in the /etc/ directory: yp.conf, yp.serv.conf and ypserv.securenets. Your server will need to allow access from the client box, and know what maps to serve. The client box will need to know the hostname or IP a

Re: NIS Problems

2004-11-01 Thread Eriberto
Helo Hendrika, After user creation, you have execute "make -C /var/yp". Regards, Eriberto Hendrika Joubert escreveu: Hi there, I am running two debian servers and are having problems with nis updating to my mail server. The one server is running all my data and logins, etc and the other one is ru

Re: NIS problems

1997-10-24 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Bao C. Ha wrote: > I have the plus entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the client, not > in the master. > > /etc/passwd > +:* ^-- This is your problem. You must remove the asterisk, since it will overwrite the pw_passwd entry from NIS (this is unlike SunOS).

Re: NIS problems

1997-10-24 Thread Bao C. Ha
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Swen Thuemmler wrote: > > I have the plus entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the client, not > > in the master. > > > > /etc/passwd > > +:* > ^-- This is your problem. > You must remove the asterisk, since it will overwrite the pw_passwd entry > from NIS (

Re: NIS problems

1997-10-22 Thread Bao C. Ha
I have the plus entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the client, not in the master. /etc/passwd +:* /etc/group +:*:*: I also changed the /etc/nsswitch.conf to use either "compat" or "db nis files" for the passwd, group, shadow entries. It still does not work. Appreciate any other sugg

Re: NIS problems

1997-10-22 Thread Jim Pick
"Bao C. Ha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having problems configuring NIS in Debian 1.3. I set one up as > master and one as client, no shadow passwd. From the client, I can do > "ypcat passwd", and see NIS distributed users. But when I try to log in > as one of the NIS users, it just does