Re: NIS problems
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Swen Thuemmler wrote:
> > I have the plus entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the client, not
> > in the master.
> >
> > /etc/passwd
> > +:*::::
> ^------ This is your problem.
> You must remove the asterisk, since it will overwrite the pw_passwd entry
> from NIS (this is unlike SunOS). A single
> +
> ist enough.
>
Thanks. Out of frustration, I remove the "*" and it works beautifully
since last night.
I seem to have problems loading NIS deamons during boot up. It seems that
portmapper is brought up after NIS deamons. I have to manually start
"/etc/init.d/nis start" to bring NIS up after the boot up sequence is
completed. Am I missing something obvious and simple again.
Bao
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