Can anyone help me with a Solstice problem? Whenever I try to add
a new group or user, one that is clearly not in the NIS+ tables based
on what Solstice shows, the operation fails with a "... already exists"
message. This is clearly wrong, since it happens even with randomly
generated userids and character strings for names. niscat'ing the
tables shows nothing amiss, and nsswitch.conf is set for nis+ only.
Existing accounts behave correctly. Anybody know what the real problem
is? I'm a reasonably experienced system administrator, but this one has
me stumped.
Barry Fagin
Associate Professor of Computer Science
US Air Force Academy