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Re: nis login problems



On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:34:25AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote:

> The RedHat server is also running shadow password which I know can cause
> trouble for NIS.

    Seems like you already said it to me. I'm no NIS expert, but I'd
double-check the maps that it's pushing out to the client. Make sure that the
shadow passwords aren't pushing something stupid for the password, like ! or
*. 

    Anything in the relevant log files?

    Mike

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