NIS User account

[Karasik, Vitaly]

can you "su - problematic_account" from root?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dege, Robert C. [mailto:robert.dege at ngc.com]
> Sent: Mon, August 23, 2004 9:36 PM
> To: RedHat List (E-mail)
> Subject: NIS User account
> 
> 
> 
> I am need of assistance.  I have an NIS user account that can 
> logon to one
> machine, but is unable to logon to another.  Both NIS clients 
> share the   
> same NIS master, and are in the same domain.
> 
> I ran a ypmatch against the user, and NIS entry is identical 
> from both    
> machines.  A finger on the NIS account from both systems 
> shows identical 
> information, along with a valid shell.
> 
> Upon failed authentication, /var/log/messages shows a 
> PASSWORD INCORRECT
> message on system-2.  I also tried over ssh & telnet, but to no avail.
> 
> Both systems are redhat 7.2.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
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