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
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