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Re: NIS in Linux



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> Hi, everyone.
> 
> I'm trying to set up NIS in Linux.
> 
> Everything's pretty much set up (no need to build anything - the
> binaries come with slackware), and typing 'ypcat passwd' on a client
> gives me the NIS server's passwd file. The only thing not working
> is the fact that I can't actually login to the client with an
> account specified in the server.
> 
> I've included +:*:0:0::: at the end of the client's passwd
> and +:*:0: at the end of the client's /etc/group. 'ypcat passwd'
> works (so ypbind is ok).
> 

I am using it with out any problems just when setting it up
it kept on mixing up the domain name with yp-domain name
I ended up renameing /bin/domainname to domainname-yp and
dnsdomainname makeing a link to hostname

dovie
 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Shay
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> Shay Rojansky, roji@cs.huji.ac.il                 Finger for PGP public key
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