Re: NIS and initgroups
In article <[🔎] 99695890041DD4118D2F00D0B748B0A60478A720@zuk02exm01.comm.mot.com>,
Bristow Paul-BPB007 <Paul.C.Bristow@motorola.com> wrote:
>Hi,
> I've recently installed debian on a spare PC at work and I'm having
>real problems getting NIS to work properly with groups. I'd appreciate
>any advice on the following problem.
>After installation I set up NIS using the nsswitch.conf file, the
>relevant lines are as follows.
>
>passwd: files nis
>shadow: files
>group: files nis
>
>After doing this I was unable to log in as root! Whenever I tried I got
>an error message
>initgroups invalid argument
Sounds like there is a (syntax?) error in the NIS groups map.
Use 'ypcat groups' and see if you can find something obvious.
Maybe you have groups with gids > 65535? That isn't supported by
Linux unless you install a 2.4 kernel and glibc >= 2.2.
Mike.
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