Very Computer

Howdy -

At work I'm trying to set up my Linux PC (RH7.1) as an NIS client to allow
me to login using my account on the NIS server (and hopefully get
automount working to mount my home dir).  yp/nisdomainname, ypbind,
etc. are all set up on my PC according to a how-to (forgot which).  I can
run rpcinfo* and get results just as the how-to claims I should.  I can
mount my NIS home dir no problem (all this done as root on my PC).  But I
can't log on to my NIS-land user acct.  Everytime I do I get an error
stating "Unknown user" (or something to that effect).  I'm pretty sure I
tried adding +::::: to my PC's /etc/passwd.  Do I need more than just
blank fields?  Does the admin have to do something more?  On my PC I can
do 'yppasswd | grep <acct>' and see my account exists in NIS-land.  Can
someone tell me what I'm missing so that I can log on?

Thanks...

Mike
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Hi!,

Quote:> At work I'm trying to set up my Linux PC (RH7.1) as an NIS client to allow
> me to login using my account on the NIS server (and hopefully get
> automount working to mount my home dir).  yp/nisdomainname, ypbind,
> etc. are all set up on my PC according to a how-to (forgot which).  I can
> run rpcinfo* and get results just as the how-to claims I should.  I can
> mount my NIS home dir no problem (all this done as root on my PC).  But I
> can't log on to my NIS-land user acct.  Everytime I do I get an error
> stating "Unknown user" (or something to that effect).  I'm pretty sure I
> tried adding +::::: to my PC's /etc/passwd.  Do I need more than just
> blank fields?  Does the admin have to do something more?  On my PC I can
> do 'yppasswd | grep <acct>' and see my account exists in NIS-land.  Can
> someone tell me what I'm missing so that I can log on?

I am only concerned that there might be a incompatability between the password
files on the client and on the server.  This may especially be the case if
there is shadow passwording being used.

See ya

Dean Thompson

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