Re: 'w' works, 'who' does not...

["Eric G. Stern" <egstern@beatrice.fnal.gov>]

Here's the situation:

My debian system is running as an NIS client from a master which
happens to be an SGI.  I can log into my debian linux system, so it
sees my user name from the passwd map.  I can do a

ypcat passwd.byname
ypcat passwd.byuid
ypcat group.byname
ypcat group.bygid

and see all the correct entries.  I can 'cd ~username' and also
'finger username' so somehow it's getting that information correctly.
After the cd, my working directory is my home directory on a NFS
mounted disk.  However, if I do an 'ls -l' on a file, it reports the
numeric uid and gid instead of the names from the passwd and group
databases.  I'm running

kernel version 2.0.30
netbase 2.13-1
netstd 2.13-1
nis    2.20-1

Another oddity is that if I do:

ypwhich -m

to get the names of all the maps, it gives me a long litany of

YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad

error messages, but if I do

ypwhich -m passwd

it reports the correct yp master.

Any ideas on what is going on would be appreciated.

			Thanks,
			Eric Stern


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