I am not sure at all if i am wrong or not, but i had the same problem when adding a user. did you update the maps in /var/yp/<host> ?
Test it : add a user on the server, then go to /var/yp/<host>, do a make and try to access the account via a client.



On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:42:27PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:19:37PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
> > > We have problem with ypbind. We have a FreeBSD 4.5-P2 server
> > > which has the ypserver and a NetBSD 1.5ZB client but
> > > when adding a user to the servers NIS database it does
> > > not show up in the client. If I restart ypbind at the
> > > client then the NIS map updates, but not before that..
> > > Now is there a cache problem or something?
> > 
> > How do you check that the user exists ?
> > Did you try a basic 'ypcat passwd' ?
> 
> Yes I did 'ypcat passwd' but the the few newly created users
> were not there. One user was added a day before and even
> his record was not there.
> 
> We tested adding a user today after the reboot yesterday,
> and the new user immediately appeared on the NIS client.
> I did not change any configurations, I just rebooted
> the machine. It is difficult to try to figure what might
> be the problem as I am not an ypbind expert... Is ypbind
> using any caching (that might cause the bug)?
> 
> BR,
> Teemu
> 
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Ooops ! i think i just sended my cat to /dev/null :-)