A "me too": NIS stopped working for me about a week ago. All I did was add a user, then "cd /var/yp; make".
Normal console login at the clients just spits me out as if I gave a bad username or password. gdm shakes and says, "Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info." Logging in as root and then su to a nis user gives: # su hazelsct su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. (Ignored) Unknown colorls variable `do'. Segmentation fault # Until a couple of days ago, su worked (with the warning and the Ignored), then it stopped around Tuesday. ps auwx | grep yp gives four ypbind processes on the client, and on the master it gives the same plus ypserv, rpc.yppasswdd -e chsh and rpc.ypxfrd. I've tried re-initializing the server, another "cd /var/yp; make", looking diligently at the debian howto, but nothing works. Oh- logins work fine on the master. Any help would be much appreciated, even an explanation of the conditions which lead to this error message. -Adam P.