Thanks to all for their help. I was able to resolve the problem by copying /etc/nsswitch.nis to /etc/nsswitch.conf. Apparently somethings was amiss with my manually edited nsswitch.conf file. Thanks go to the following people for their input: David Foster Darren Dunham John Timon Charles Homan Casper Dik Their replies were: -------- It would help to see your nsswitch.conf. If your passwd and group entries are correct, then you don't need the +... entries in /etc/{passwd,group}. Dave Foster << All opinions expressed are mine, not the University's >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David Foster National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Programmer/Analyst University of California, San Diego dfoster@ucsd.edu Department of Neuroscience, Mail 0608 (858) 534-7968 http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable." -- George Bernard Shaw --------- So it sounds like the passwords aren't correct. You showed the passwd and group entries, how about shadow? -- Darren Dunham ddunham@taos.com Unix System Administrator Taos - The SysAdmin Company Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > --------------- ypinit -c to setup the client make sure that your nis servers (master and slaves) are in /etc/hosts make sure domainname is set also. -- John Timon Desk: 519 667 7187 Cell: 519 852 0042 Email: john.timon@labatt.com Pager: 519 430 1826 "Show me the person who is not ignorant, i.e. please demonstrate to me how your use of the word "ignorant" is not semantically null." - Bigby Findrake --------------- Hey, Jeff, this isn't an answer to your question (unfortunately.) I just wanted to point out that you don't actually need the "+:" entries in passwd or group. Just make sure the lines in /etc/nsswitch.conf look like: passwd: files nis group: files nis As to your problem, could something be wrong with your shadow file? For instance, I don't recall if in the "+:" case you need a similar line in shadow or not. I believe that if you are root when you su it doesn't bother checking the shadow file, so that would be why it works for root but no one else... Good luck! Charles --------------- Did you run pwconv? Did you add a "+::" entry to /etc/shadow? (Withpout the "x"). The proper way to create a compatibility client is this: Change passwd line in nsswitch.conf to "passwd: compat" Add "+::::::" line to /etc/passwd run "pwconv" (will update passwd to include "x" and create shadow entry) Casper -----Original Message----- From: sunmanagers-admin@sunmanagers.org [mailto:sunmanagers-admin@sunmanagers.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Welsch Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:38 AM To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: Help with YP/NIS Managers, I will be the first to admit that I am not a guru when it comes to YP/NIS, and I would like to ask a hopefully simple question. I am attempting to add a new NIS client to my domain. I have modified nsswitch.conf to use the proper compat entries for passwd and group. I added the proper entries to /etc/passwd (+:x:::::) and /etc/group (+:). Automounting is also working correctly. Here is the strange part: When I am logged in as root, I am able to su - username with no problems. The user logs in, has their home directory, and all is well. However, when I am logged in as a user and su to another user (not root) the users password is never accepted. I also cannot login as a non-root user directly using SSH. SSH keys are accepted without problem for that user, but passwords are not. I know that I am overlooking something simple. Can anyone clue me in? Also, I have been looking for good online NIS references and have not had the best luck finding one. Any suggestions? Thanks, and I will summarize, -- Jeff Welsch | jeff.welsch@enviz.com Director, Network Operations Enviz | Interactive Insight | www.enviz.com 1001 Marshall St, Suite 550 | Redwood City, CA 94063 v. 650.780.5847 | f. 650.780.5849 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jul 1 18:14:13 2002
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