Re: NIS help

[Glenn Johnson <glennpj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 14:17 +0000, Ryan Newman wrote:

> From reading online I think I'm setting this up correctly...
> 
> cd /var/yp
> ln -s /etc/passwd ./passwd
> ypinit -m testdomain
> 
> and I've added this to /etc/rc.conf
> nisdomainname="testdomain"
> nis_server_enable="YES"
> nis_ypxfrd_enable="YES"
> nis_yppasswdd_enable="YES"
> 
> Then on the client I add to /etc/rc.conf
> nisdomainname="testdomain"
> nis_client_enable="YES"
> and the entry into master.passwd and group +::: etc..
> 
> I can login fine to the client machine with user accounts on the server but 
> when I change a password on the server the changes aren't reflected on the 
> client side.  I'm not sure what is up perhaps there is some user error here 
> but I am following what I read online.

Is the account for the user you are trying to change the password for an
NIS account or a local account to the server?  If the latter, the
password change will not propagate.  Try changing the password on one of
the client machines and see if that works.

-- 
Glenn Johnson <glennpj@xxxxxxxxxxx>