Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:49:00 -1000 From: William Bierman <wbierman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS issue (now resolved!) Message-ID: <f994b8800410111949564e079f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2b5f066d041011044746110d4e@mail.gmail.com> References: <f994b880041010155565d1b915@mail.gmail.com> <20041010.235204.4f07a9c7ff46fcd5.10.0.3.20@bugsgrief.net> <f994b88004101100442fe5b87@mail.gmail.com> <2b5f066d041011044746110d4e@mail.gmail.com>
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> Interesting...something that pops into my mind is something obvious > since it was stated in the handbook, but needs to be said > anyway...when you add stuff to the master.passwd file, do you re-make > the database? Also, if you follow the directions in the handbook, > they suggest you make a different master.passwd file in /var/yp to > store the accounts that go into nis....I re-wrote the make file > section for passwd.* and told it to look to /etc/passwd where the UID > is greater then 1000....and it works great for me...if you'd like a > copy of the entries in the Makefile, I'll send them to you. It sounds > like that's what's going on (and I've had endless students make this > mistake in class as well...it's a common one). I solved the problem! It turns out there were other machines on the network which somehow or another turned themselves into slave servers, and were propogating the old information. I did rm -rf /var/yp/cluster on all of them, and rebooted them all, and now it works. Thanks for your assistance, Brian! Bill
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