thanks to:
Sean O'Connell [sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU]
Spider Boardman [spider_at_Orb.Nashua.NH.US]
MC.Vialatte_at_cust.univ-bpclermont.fr
Spider asked if "ypmatch <user> prpasswd" showed the same thing on the
client and the master. They didn't. Turned out that I had a local enhanced
account on the client that was shadowing the NIS account. Removing the
local account fixed the problem.
original:
> I'm running 4.0D with July jumbo patch, enhanced security and NIS. I
have
> one 4100 configured as NIS master and two others configured as slaves. I
> have a 400 running 4.0D and enhanced security I'm trying to use as a
client.
> Everything looks OK on all four boxes, e.g. ypmatch <user> passwd returns
> correct information on all four and the other yp* stuff works as
expected.
>
> I can't login on the client using an account/password that works fine on
the
> other three machines. Verified that the attempted account is an NIS
account
> and not local on any of the boxes. DEC CSC walked through the config
> yesterday with me and didn't see anything wrong. They're getting back to
> me. Has anyone on the list got any ideas?
Daniel Monjar
Manager, Systems
Organon Teknika
Mailto:Daniel.Monjar_at_orgtek.com
Received on Fri Nov 20 1998 - 16:17:09 NZDT