On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Fedora@TinyCreatures wrote: > Hello. > > I recently set up a NIS server on a box running FreeBSD 5.2. Everything > went well. The clients are Linux machines, running Fedora Core 1. > I tried to configure one, it > connects to the NIS server, all yp commands return successfull queries, > made the necessary changes in nsswithch.conf as well, however, when i'm > trying to log on with a user that exists only on the NIS server i get > "Login incorrect" messages all the time. > What could be the problem? What line in your passwd file invokes NIS. http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/man-pages/man5/nsswitch.5.php3 "In /etc/passwd you could have entries of the form +user or +@netgroup (include the specified user from the NIS passwd map), -user or -@netgroup (exclude the specified user) and + (include every user, except the excluded ones, from the NIS passwd map). Since most people only put a + at the end of /etc/passwd..." Where is the home directories for a NIS user? Are there any useful hints in messages in /var/log/secure /var/log/* -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage. mitch48-at-sbcglobal-dot-net
