Subject: Re: strange nis behaviour
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/05/2005 18:17:04
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 05:06:40PM +0100, Antoine Reilles wrote:
| I am trying to setup nis to let people log into my machine.
| ypcat works fine, and i have:
| $ ypcat passwd | wc -l
| 987
|=20
| However, only a few nis accounts can login (belonging to different
| groups), the others getting "unknown login".
| I have:
| $ getent passwd | wc -l
| 69
|=20
| there are only 15 local accounts, and so getent lists 54 nis accounts,
| but not the others !
Do the entries returned from "getent passwd" match those at the start
of the the result of "ypcat passwd" ?
If so, is the next entry in the YP passwd map (that getent isn't
returning) correct, or seem corrupt?
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