NIS problems

[Benjamin Hornberger]

It works now, thanks! However, it worked only after a reboot, restarting 
ypbind only didn't help. What other services do I have to restart when 
changing the NIS configuration, if I want to avoid rebooting?

Thanks,
Benjamin


At 02:49 PM 7/15/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Benjamin Hornberger wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>I am having problems getting a NIS system to work on RHEL AS3 (both 
>>client and server). I set up the server and the client, the client finds 
>>the server (ypwhich -m gives all the maps, ypcat passwd shows the correct 
>>password entries), and on the client I can finger users which exist only 
>>on the NIS server. But such a user can't log in.
>>I would guess it has to do with the password shadowing, so that the 
>>client would find the user but the user's password on the server is not 
>>accepted by the client. Any hints?
>
>Check the /etc/nsswitch.conf file and make sure you have THESE lines
>uncommented:
>
>         passwd:    db files nisplus nis
>         shadow:    db files nisplus nis
>         group:     db files nisplus nis
>
>Make sure these lines are commented out:
>
>         #passwd:     files
>         #shadow:     files
>         #group:      files
>
>You want the first set to be active to check against the NIS server.
>The second group will only check passwords and such against the local
>files (which is the default if you did NOT specify NIS during the AS3
>installation and added NIS later).
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