[ILUG] NIS and new users

[Niall O Broin]

On 15 Mar 2005, at 12:28, Kevin Philp wrote:

> I have just installed a new user on our NIS server, nothing special 
> except
> they will have a private group and will be excluded from the main user 
> group.
> I can log in as the user on the server but I can't seem to get any of 
> the
> client machines to accept the login. The other users on the NIS server 
> can
> log into the clients. I restarted the yp services on the server but 
> still no
> luck... any suggestions of what I am missing?

You didn't mention rebuilding the NIS maps on the server - did you do 
that, or is it being done automatically?  You can check by doing   
ypcat passwd.byname |grep NEWUSERNAME  on a random client.


Niall