NIS

Brian McCann bjmccann at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 05:36:38 PST 2005


Nope...just tried that with no luck.  Thanks though.  Any other ideas anyone?

--Brian


On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:43:40 -0800, Bob Van Zant <bvanzant at asyncfs.com> wrote:
> Are your dates screwed up? By that I mean is master.passwd newer than
> your NIS file? Try touch(1)ing your NIS file and then running make.
> 
> I've never actually setup NIS before. My comment is just based on my
> experiences with make.
> 
> -Bob
> 
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:29 -0500, Brian McCann wrote:
> > HI all...I'm having a NIS problem I can't figure out.  I've done this
> > before on 4.7, and countless other times on RedHat...but this is
> > evading me.  I'm trying to re-make my databases since I've added a
> > user, I go into /var/yp and run "make mynis" and get "`mynis' is up to
> > date.", which I know can't be right.  I've got to be missing something
> > somewhere.
> >      I've added the line to the Makefile "MASTER_PASSWD =
> > /etc/master.passwd" so that YP uses the file in /etc...or at
> > least...that's all I recall having to do on 4.7, and doctored up the
> > sections that involve the passwd files changed it to only look at UIDs
> > greater then 3.
> >      Can someone point out my probably obvious mistake?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Brian
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