Andrew D Dixon wrote: > The problem is that when I try to login with the username andrew.dixon > on my Debian box the login fails. It does fail differently then if > I just give it a garbage login so I do believe that it is accessing the > maps in some way.
did you follow the directions noted when you installed the nis package? i.e. you have to have something like +::::::: in /etc/passwd and +::: in /etc/group (that may not be the right number of colons, check the docs) for nis logins to work.. i use it on one debian 2.2 machine at work(client) and the NIS server is a solaris machine, works great, i think the only thing that doesn't work is changing the password from the client(although i haven't tried it in months), since nobody but the IT staff can login to it though its not an issue. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]