[ILUG] NIS and new users

[Kevin Philp]

That was it, rebuilt the maps and its OK ... thanks

Kevin.

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 13:13, Niall O Broin wrote:
>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